Agricultural Economics Department
Date of this Version
10-12-2022
Citation
Cornhusker Economics (October 12, 2022)
Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
In a research article published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s4l 599-020-00658-w) we identify the conditions under which the introduction of a low -quality product does not drive its high-quality counterpart out of the market but, instead, ends-up coexisting with it. Using a theoretical framework of heterogeneous consumers and producers in the context of a market for quality- ( or vertically-) differentiated products supplied by producers differing in their production efficiency, we show that the equilibrium quality configuration in a market depends on both the unobservability of product quality by consumers and the relative costs of producing the different quality products for different producers.
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