Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159572 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 731
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
We investigate the introduction of a minimum quality standard (MQS) in a vertically differentiated duopoly with an environmental externality. We establish that the MQS bites only if the hedonic component of consumer preferences is sufficiently strong. Then, we illustrate an underlying tradeoff between the beneficial effects of quality enhancement on prices and the associated undesirable increase in the environmental externality.
JEL: 
L13
L51
Q50
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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