inefficient. Certification intermediaries are institutions that provide information about quality to buyers. The amount of …

This paper provides an economic evaluation of certification and ecolabeling as an important policy instrument for … biodiversity (and environmental friendly) market supply and demand mechanisms; (c) the impact of certification practices in the … certification and ecolabeling policy instruments alone are not sufficient to guarantee a successful creation of markets for …

certification programs increase wealth in male-headed and female-headed households. In male-headed households, standards also change …

of cooperatives, as previous studies did, it is not easy to disentangle certification effects from possible cooperative …. First, in Cote d'Ivoire Fairtrade certification benefits farmers economically. Second, and more generally, cooperative … characteristics are jointly correlated with certification and relevant outcomes, which needs to be accounted for to avoid bias when …

This work presents an analysis of ecological certification and labelling in the field of tourism. In a tourist company …, the certification schemes evaluate the general approach of environmental problems, and impose to the tourist services the … interpretation, and generally less controversial than the eco-labelling schemes. As compared to the certification schemes, the eco …

-party certification of concessions, and iii) Protected Areas (PAs). We find that on average logging concessions have no effect on tree … restrictive PAs. Certification has an impact (reduces loss) only in the single region where concessions reduce loss, suggesting a …

assurance scheme (QAS) were decided as responses by fruit and vegetable producers to market conditions, separating certification … implementation of QMS and binary probit for the choice of QAS. It is found that the buyers' demand for certification and the efforts … can lead to the diffusion of certification. Because the absence of information provision and the controls exerted by …

producers of credence goods appear to be opting out of certification. Why? This paper builds in previous research and develops a … effectiveness of certification. I find the degree to which a consumer trusts the producer of a credence good and the certification … important effects on certification-based regulation. …