Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94924 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 573
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
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 improvement and the more efficiently should it produce. Optimal yardstick competition reduces distortion of both effort and quality. Under product market competition expenditures on quality should be increasing in the firm's own productivity and decreasing in the competitor's productivity.
Subjects: 
Yardstick Competition
Quality
Regulation
JEL: 
D82
I11
I18
L51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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