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Minimum quality standard under Cournot competition and pollution
Lambertini, Luca; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2011
differentiated duopoly where firms compete à la Cournot with fixed costs of quality improvement. We show that, if the weight of the …
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Regulating Quality by Regulating Quantity : A Case against Minimum Quality Standards
Boccard, Nicolas; Wauthy, Xavier - 2009
We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator prefers limiting the output, or capacity, of the incumbent firm rather than imposing a "Minimum Quality Standard" in order to help the entrant to provide high quality. As a by-product, our analysis makes a contribution to the...
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Minimum quality standards under Cournot competition
Valletti, Tommaso M. - In: Journal of regulatory economics 18 (2000) 3, pp. 235-245
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Minimum quality standards in hedonic markets with environmental externalities
Ecchia, Giulio; Lambertini, Luca; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2011
We investigate the introduction of a minimum quality standard (MQS) in a vertically differentiated duopoly with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735200
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Quality Competition in Markets with Regulated Prices and Minimum Quality Standards
Cellini, Roberto - 2013
We study the equilibrium and its stability property in a duopoly market in which minimum quality standards (MQS) are …
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Competition Among Coalitions in a Cournot Industry : A Validation of the Porter Hypothesis
Lambertini, Luca - 2015
hypothesis may emerge as a market configuration with all green firms spurred by environmental regulation, even if consumers are …
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Minimum Quality Standards in Hedonic Markets with Environmental Externalities
Ecchia, Giulio - 2011
We investigate the introduction of a minimum quality standard (MQS) in a vertically differentiated duopoly with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128771
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Green consumers, greenwashing and the misperception of environmental quality
Lambertini, Luca; Pignataro, Giuseppe; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we analyse a setup where consumers are heterogeneous in the perception of environmental quality. The equilibrium is verified in a setting with horizontal and vertical (green) differentiation. Profits are increasing in the misperception of quality, while, the investment in green...
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Quality competition in markets with regulated prices and minimum quality standards
Cellini, Roberto; Lamantia, Fabio - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 25 (2015) 2, pp. 345-370
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Regulating Endogenous Customer Switching Costs
Gans, Joshua S.; King, Stephen P. - 2001
' switching costs and the technological choice of the incumbent firm. For example 'customer pays' regulation encourages an … consider the addition of a 'buy back' rule to standard incumbent-firm-pays regulation and show that this is always preferred to … standard firms-pay regulation. Buy-back rules dominate other standard regulatory rules when firms can price discriminate on the …
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