Bottega, Lucie, Delacote, Philippe and Ibáñez, Lisette (2009) Labeling Policies and Market Behavior: Quality Standard and Voluntary Adoption. Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, 7 (2).

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Identification Number : 10.2202/1542-0485.1273

Abstract

This paper focus's on the third-party certifiers' strategy when choosing a required label quality, and the consequent market outcome. We consider two different objectives of the certifier: maximizing global demand for the labeled product (wide public policy), or maximizing global quality of the market (global quality policy). In a duopoly set up with firms bearing different costs with respect to quality provision, firms always opt for differentiation strategies: only one adopts the label. However, the labeling firm is not necessarily the most efficient one. In the case of a wide public policy, the efficient firm will produce labeled products only if costs of labeling are sufficiently low. In the case of a global quality policy, the low cost firm will always push the high-cost firm into the labeling program.

Item Type: Article
Date: December 2009
Refereed: Yes
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2014 17:37
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:48
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:27384
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15666
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