Melitz's (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality, credit constraints and marketing … because the choice of higher-quality inputs is associated with higher productivity. Second, tighter credit constraints faced … by a firm reduces its optimal prices as its choice of lower-quality inputs dominates the price distortion effect …

vegetables, and pro-cessed foods. The study shows high variation in quality and prices in the city and an increasing …

-off has for product quality. We introduce a simple information accumulation process in a horizontal differentiation model with … unobservable quality. As the number of brands increases, per-brand consumer information decreases, which leads to lower average … quality. Eventually, the reduction in quality can outweigh the marginal welfare benefits of greater product variety. Thus, the …

We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … whether a hospital will increase its quality if its rivals increase their quality. We then apply spatial econometric methods … to a sample of English hospitals in 2009–10 and a set of 16 quality measures including mortality rates, readmission …

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 …

Permanent optimization of processes for improving the quality of products, with reasonable financial costs, is a …

literature of career concerns, we consider a newspaper that seeks to maximize its reputation for high quality. Our results … predict more media silence, the higher the prior expectations on the quality of the firm, the greater the probability of ex …

educational organization through the process of knowledge management and quality assurance. The process of evaluation and … selfevaluation are important factors for quality assurance and part of the process for knowledge management. Quality is expressed … through performance, leadership quality and cooperation with the environment. Research has shown that kindergartens regularly …