culture, and quality upgrading costs, associated to market similarities in income level, are found to be significant. Finally …

One striking development associated with the explosion of e-commerce is the increased transparency of sellers' quality … history. In this paper we analyze how this affects firms' incentives to invest in quality when the outcome of investment is … uncertain. We identify two conflicting effects. On the one hand, reducing the consumer's cost of search for quality exacerbates …

programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality are identified from bidding processes in which public and private …

important even by current standards. As studies of contemporary societies show institutional quality to be an important …

indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for …

Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is … ex ante ambiguous. This study contributes to the sparse empirical literature on primary care quality by examining the … in more exposed markets, but the effects on primary care quality in these markets were modest: we find small improvements …

the set of imported goods and the quality to vary. This variety-, set-of-products-, and quality-adjusted import price … gains from quality. Using HS 07 (vegetables) as our benchmark group of products with unchanged quality, we find significant … gains from quality for Germany, France, Italy and the UK between 1995 and 2010. Although these results are not invariant to …

quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than …

contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms' sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …