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 present 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 exit …

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 …

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 …

A private and a public firm face fixed quality-dependent costs of production and compete first in quality and then … quality ranking. In addition, mixed competition seems to be a more efficient regulatory instrument than the adoption of a … minimum quality standard. …

culture, and quality upgrading costs, associated to market similarities in income level, are found to be significant. Finally …

, associated to market similarities in geography and culture, and quality upgrading costs, associated to market similarities in …

cross-country externalities. Second, minimum quality standards are shown to operate as non-tariff barriers to trade. Third …Unilateral minimum quality standards are endogenously determined as the outcome of a non-cooperative standard …-setting game between the governments of two countries. Cross-country externalities from the implementation of minimum quality …

firm choose their quality level before engaging a price competition in the final stage. We first show that the indirect … effect of the quota on the sales of the domestic producer are different depending on whether his product quality is the high … the pricing game and go backward to tackle the quality choice game : for loose quotas, both firms choose Top quality while …