Based on my recent work with several co-authors this paper explores the relationship between discretion, reputation …, competition and entry in procurement markets. I focus especially on public procurement, which is highly regulated for … accountability and trade reasons. In Europe regulation constrains the use of past performance information to select contractors while …

Based on my recent work with several co-authors this paper explores the relationship between discretion, reputation …, competition and entry in procurement markets. I focus especially on public procurement, which is highly regulated for … accountability and trade reasons. In Europe regulation constrains the use of past performance information to select contractors while …

, appropriately designed reputation mechanisms actually stimulate entry. Since quality increases but not prices, our data also suggest …This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and entry in … in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our results …

, appropriately designed reputation mechanisms actually stimulate entry. Since quality increases but not prices, our data also suggest …This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and entry in … in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our results …

procurement. We propose a procurement model with reputation and entry assigning to the entrant a reputational advantage of varying …This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and entry in … standard practice in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our …

, it can generate a territorial quality surplus and so it is known as collective reputation. Such surplus is based on two …The relevance of quality and typical food as strength for Rural Local Systems (RLS) is widely recognized in literature … and Leffler 1981; Shapiro, 1983) find in the reputation of products the element which makes possible suitable levels of …

The quality of output is of great concern to firms, consumers and regulators and yet firms' decisions concerning … quality receive far less attention from economists than quantity or pricing decisions. There is a substantial management … literature on product quality which, to some extent, discusses the costs and benefits of various approaches to product quality …

aversion to bad quality while both the supplier and the retailer make marginally increasing efforts to avoid bad quality, we … deduce several implicit parameters, including quality cost, based on observable data, such as the share of the channel margin … well-known fact that vertical integration improves the quality perceived by the customer, but also characterize the …

To address a gap in the literature that deals with official quality labels, the article proposes a methodology for … analysis and a conceptual framework that are subsequently applied to two such quality labels from the south west region of … are mobilised by the industry sectors that are concerned by such quality labels as PGI (Protected Geographic Indicator …