trade issues in the presence of country asymmetries in terms of product qualities, technology, costs, market size, and … ‘leapfrogging’ in terms of product qualities. This note presents an example where a minimum quality standard facilitates …

trade issues in the presence of country asymmetries in terms of product qualities, technology, costs, market size and income …

costs and quality-dependent costs of production and compete in quality and price in the domestic market. Quality … quality standard binding for both foreign and domestic firms. In the presence of an initial cost advantage of the domestic … firm, a sufficiently high minimum quality standard set by the domestic government will enable the domestic firm to induce …

In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete on quality … and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set uniformly or according to the principle of mutual …

differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete on quality and price in two segmented …This paper studies the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product …

In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete on quality … and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can …’ qualities in the previous period determine their costs. In an N-period game, quality standards will, in fact, lead to …

and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented …I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation …

quality. This paper explores a model that incorporates quality-enhancing spillovers in an international duopoly model of … product quality to reduce the amount of technology that spills over to the Southern firm. This strategic quality reduction …, which is often observed in reality, plays a critical role in welfare consequences and policy implications of quality …

free trade or autarky, while if the instrument is a tariff the optimal policy is neither free trade nor autarky. In the …