This article explores demand-enhancing check-off programs and how such programs may influence both private programs as well as industry market structure. Under duopoly, a firm may increase its sales through privately funding product quality improvements. However, such endogenous sunk costs may...

[fre] Cet article étudie les conséquences d'une politique publique de label dans un contexte de commerce international. Un modèle très simple permet de mettre en évidence certaines distorsions inhérentes à cette politique. Une situation de libéralisation des échanges peut conduire à...

An analytical framework where consumers display preferences for various qualities of an agricultural commodity is used to investigate the producer welfare effects of generic advertising assessments. Depending upon the degree of differentiation present in the final goods, some producers are shown...

This article investigates the effects of a public labelling system in a context of international trade. A simple framework allows to present some distortions linked to such a policy. A trade liberalisation situation may lead to a change in the label policy, where the foreign seller incurs the...

This paper empirically explores the link between quality and concentration in a cross-section of manufactured goods. Using concentration data and product quality indicators, an ordered probit estimation explores the impact of concentration on quality that is defined as an index of quality...

This paper empirically explores the link between quality and concentration in a cross-section of manufactured goods. Using concentration data and product quality indicators, an ordered probit estimation explores the impact of concentration on quality that is defined as an index of quality...

We analyze the role of trust in the evaluation of a new food technology, namely nanotechnology. A literature review in the social and economic sciences reveals that many different trust concepts are available. The economics literature suggests that trust can lead to lower efforts of...