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Competition vs. quality in an industry with imperfect traceability

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We consider an industry where firms produce goods that have different quality levels but firms cannot differentiate themselves from rivals. In this situation, producing low-quality generates a negative externality on the whole industry. This is particularly true when consumers cannot identify producers. In this article, we show that under a "Laissez Faire" situation free entry is not socially optimal and we argue that the imposition of a Minimum Quality Standard (MQS) may induce firms to enter the market.
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hal-02643261 , version 2 (30-05-2016)
hal-02643261 , version 1 (28-05-2020)

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Elodie Rouvière, Raphael Soubeyran. Competition vs. quality in an industry with imperfect traceability. Economics Bulletin, 2011, 31 (4), pp.3052-3067. ⟨hal-02643261v1⟩
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