Agricultural Economics, Department of

 

Cornhusker Economics

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ORCID IDs

Giannakas 0000-0002-3628-2869

Fulton 0000-0002-0351-5531

Date of this Version

10-12-2022

Document Type

Newsletter Issue

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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