important ramifications for the use and quality of paid childcare. Even if one is concerned primarily with the quantity aspect …, the quality dimension cannot be ignored. This paper provides an exposition of the potential biases in estimates of price … elasticities with respect to quantity that do not allow for quality variation or for the possibility of non-linear pricing …

This papers studies the effects on service quality and consumer surplus of a minimum price which is fixed by a … maximize consumer surplus only if consumers demand the highest possible average quality. If consumers demand services of lesser … quality, the association?s price will be too high if measured by consumer surplus. Moreover we show that a de-regulated market …

rational. Art directors set performance quality according to their aspiration levels. While taking into account the spatial …

providers of contents incentives to invest in higher quality and, as a result, force competitors to reduce their prices …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … the open-loop solution (providers choose the optimal quality investment plan based on demand at the initial period) and … the feedback closed-loop solution (providers observe demand in each period and choose quality in response to current …

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries' of local legislators …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services in different patent offices. Quality … substantially: the EPO provides higher-quality and more expensive services than the USPTO, while the JPO is in an intermediate … of Jaffe and Lerner's (2004) conjecture of a vicious cycle linking the quality of examination and demand for patents; and …

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

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …