quality attributes. Because there is no compelling argument for a multiplicativity in quality, monopolists tend to distort … durability, even with constant marginal costs. Distortions in durability and other quality aspects are aligned exactly when the … marginal cost of quality do not increase too much with durability. …

This paper analyses simultaneous regulation of cost and quality when firms have private, correlated information about … productivity and the regulator receives a signal about quality. It is shown that managerial effort and expenditures on quality are … positively correlated in the optimal contract. The higher is firm productivity the more should the firm spend on quality …

providers of contents incentives to invest in higher quality and, as a result, force competitors to reduce their prices …

terms of the quality of public goods are made done by a central planner. More specifically, he asks the question of whether … quality and cost of public goods, a local government always has an interest in taxing the mobile factor. This leads to a Nash …

One striking development associated with the explosion of e-commerce is the increased transparency of sellers' quality … history. In this paper we analyze how this affects firms' incentives to invest in quality when the outcome of investment is … uncertain. We identify two conflicting effects. On the one hand, reducing the consumer's cost of search for quality exacerbates …

quality by offering a low price for the first generation, which results in broad selling. The price of the second generation … durable product that is sequentially improved over time in a market where consumers have heterogeneous valuations for quality … strategy of firms with high PDC is affected by the observability of quality. When consumers are myopic and quality is …

research has been carried out on the subject. However, to date, it has failed to address the extent to which the quality of day … statistics. The official data allow us to measure the quality of day care centers in youth office districts. The data include … quality characteristics and the employment patterns of mothers with children under three years. The link is stronger in …

square method. Outcomes signified that the factors that influence evaluation of the supplier are quality, cost, delivery and … supplier relationship management. Findings: The study depicted that quality and cost factors for supplier evaluation are … quality, cost and delivery as the factors for evaluating the suppliers. But for a company it is quintessential to have good …

may depend on country-specific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …

quality and fidelity of implementation in home visit programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not exist. In … light of this gap, this note presents a snapshot of home visit quality in seven countries in which home visits reach a … order to ensure implementation quality. …