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Political leadership and the quality of public goods and services: Does religion matter?
Despite some indications to the contrary, religion still plays an important role in contemporary society. In this paper, the association between...
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Minimum quality standards and benchmarking in differentiated duopoly
We study a two-period model of a duopoly with goods differentiated by quality. The periods’ length corresponds to the goods’ useful lifespan, and...
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Interregional Differentiation and Donating and Recipient Regions: Diversity of Assessments and Conclusions
AbstractA comprehensive analysis of the causes, extent, and consequences of interregional differences in production and consumption indicators cannot...
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Privatization neutrality with quality and subsidies
This study introduces a subsidy policy on product quality in a quality-then-price game to remedy the quality distortion under a mixed oligopoly (one...
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Quality choice and behavior-based price discrimination
This study examines the impacts of behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) on profits, consumer surplus, and welfare when firms choose their...
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Indonesia: Adaptation and Differentiation in Informal Gold Mining
With some 900 small-scale mining sites throughout the country, Indonesia’s informal gold sector is large and growing. This chapter explores key...
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Total Quality Management and Innovation: Linkages and Evidence from the Agro-food Industry
Total quality management and innovation are two inherently related concepts that appear to have an important role in the performance of agro-food...
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Quality competition and entry: a media market case
The present paper provides an analysis of quality competition and entry in the context of two-sided media platforms. We provide a full...
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Global Challenges: Social Problems
The chapter focuses on such global social problems as mass poverty in less developed economies, social differentiation and demographic problem both...
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Quality-improving and cost-reducing strategic alliances
We develop a two-stage Salop-type model to examine quality-improving and process innovation alliances in an oligopolistic context. In the first...
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Is there a win–win scenario with increased beef quality and reduced consumption?
In the scientific literature, the debate on health and environmental benefits of a reduction in the share of animal-sourced food, in particular beef,...
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Competition in the quality of higher education: the impact of student mobility
In the last years, there has been a shift toward more private financing of higher education in many countries. At the same time, student mobility has...
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Challenges and Perspectives in Assessing Technological Development: A Focus on Ukraine’s Processing Industry
This chapter explores the challenges in evaluating the level of technological development in Ukraine’s processing industry, where universally...
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Report on the Development of the Financial Industry in China's Special Economic Zones in 2019
In 2018, under the dual factors of intensified Sino-US trade frictions and the continued decline of economic growth, although the scale of the...
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Competitive pricing despite search costs when lower price signals quality
The Diamond paradox demonstrates that when learning prices is costly for consumers, each firm has market power. However, making firms privately...
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Shadow of Technology: Robotics Development and Regional Economic Inequality
Since robots came into the world, robotics innovation have steadily increased in China. Nevertheless, whether the development of robotics can...
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Product quality and endogenous firm objectives
This paper examines the endogenous operational objectives of firms in a Cournot duopoly under the consideration of vertical product differentiation....
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Heterogeneous Rail Supply Chain Strategies for International Rail Transport
The increasing diversity of goods structures in the global supply chain has led to a need for varying inventory policies and different rail services....
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Input price, bargaining power, and a multi-input-multi-product firm
This paper investigates conditions under which the downstream firm can benefit from cost disadvantages arose from upstream sector. We consider a...
