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"This book eliminates the complexities contained within the International Standards on Auditing and gets to the heart of what it is that auditing standards want from auditors. Offering practical guidance on how these often difficult to interpret standards are applied to actual practice, the...
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Viscusi (1978) shows how, in markets with quality uncertainty, perfect certification results in separation from top … down due to an unraveling process similar to Akerlof (1970). De and Nabar (1991) argue that imperfect certification …' buying decision explicitly, a separating equilibrium with imperfect certification does exist. …
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It is often argued that certifiers have an incentive to offer inflated certificates, although they deny it. In this paper, we study a model in which a certifier is paid by sellers, and may offer them inflated certificates, but incurs costs if doing so. We find that the certifier may face a...
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This paper develops an analytical framework which structures the problem of whether, how and to what extent small producers in developing countries are disadvantaged by the increasing prevalence of food quality standards. Based on a literature review, the empirical evidence is structured and...
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