This paper analyses the decision to invest in quality by a hospital in an environment where doctors are devoted workers …, i.e. they care for specific aspects of the output they produce. We assume that quality is the result of both an …

issues, often related to the quality of traded products. These problems can be partially solved by ensuring a continuous and … reliable flow of information regarding the quality parameters of wood pellets from the producers to the final users. The aim of … this work is to define a metric index for quality parameters that can detect the certifiability of analyzed samples …

The definition of products’ quality and its enforcement can be produce in a more or less centralized way. These two … dimensions, definition and enforcement are the core of our approach based on a distinction between several “levels†of quality … governance of quality and, second, to analyze the interactions among these levels. …

Trade in quality has become a dominant economic phenomenon in Europe since the 1990s (Fontagné, Freudenberg, Peridy …, 1998). Increasingly, European countries trade in similar products which vary in quality and variety, making quality an … important determinant of trade within these countries. This paper, thus, attempts to quantify the effect of quality in trade …

The paper deals with quality of economic research in Slovakia, which is strongly connected with quality of economic … education at Slovak universities. Quality of economic research is described by publication activity of Slovak professors of …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an … effective way to increase the quality signal and attract patients. A regulator who is concerned about equity may protect the …, competition can improve equity by forcing the providers to increase quality for the majority group. …

monopoly cannot occur for any anti-piracy policy. We prove that the initial quality differential between the original and the … pirated product is essential to explain the effects of an increase in the quality of pirated product on both the level of … piracy and the optimal monitoring rate. Assuming a one-stage entry process and a sufficiently high quality differential, we …

’ rise up the quality ladder, and by contrast the substantially lower prices of China’s exports to EU countries vis …