markups, quality and productivity while measuring/interpreting the pass-through of trade costs into welfare. Robust to the … of productivity, suggesting that lower trade costs are associated with higher-quality imports that have been produced …This paper measures the pass-through of trade costs into U.S. import prices by using actual data on duties/tariffs and …

>) definition of variety, we relax two assumptions, allowing the set of products and unobserved taste and quality parameter to vary … compared with gains from taste and quality. Using food and tobacco products as a benchmark with unchanged taste and quality, we … find significant gains from shifts in consumer preferences and improving quality for Germany, France, Italy and the UK …

Health care and educational reforms, with its emphasis on rewarding quality and cutting costs, could change the …

Wright’s learning curve (WLC) assumes every unit of production has an acceptable level of quality, which is not the …(1):93–104, <CitationRef CitationID="CR26">2008</CitationRef>) allowed for production interruption to restore the quality of the production … learning to quality, their results cannot be generalized as they considered a single (first) production cycle. This assumption …

price-to-quality ratio. Rosen also conjectured that, in the case of multiple-type consumers, the normal course of consumer … behavior forces the price-to-quality relationship to be convex and prevents it from being concave. We show that this conjecture … is false and explain why there is no a priori reason to rule out concavity in the price-to-quality relationship. In this …

22000 standards. The purpose of this study is, to determine students awareness and ignores of level of food quality and food … quality certification during their food shopping. This research has conducted with survey in the Hittite University, Faculty … relationship between demographic specialties of students and ignored of food and quality legislation. But there is relationship …

Although quality has long been debated in service industry starting from different models developed with respect to … goods, there is still room for further investigation on service quality, especially on the definition and the identification … customer satisfaction as a criterion for evaluation. Service quality is also particularly important in fast changing …

The paper contributes to the theoretical debate about the determinants of a tourist destination's quality; it proposes …

Wine is a product characterized by the existence of both significant differences in quality and asymmetric information … between producers and consumers. In this context there is a natural incentive for wineries to market poor quality wines …. However, evidence shows that wine markets are populated by high quality wines, as well as lower quality products. In fact, in …