Geographical Indications and the Competitive Provision of Quality in Agricultural Markets

GianCarlo Moschini, Luisa Menapace and Daniel Pick

ISU General Staff Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The economics of geographical indications (GIs) is assessed within a vertical product differentiation framework that is consistent with the competitive structure of agriculture. It is assumed that certification costs are needed for GIs to serve as (collective) credible quality certification devices, and production of high-quality product is endogenously determined. We find that GIs can support a competitive provision of quality and lead to clear welfare gains, although they fall short of delivering the (constrained) first best. The main beneficiaries are consumers. Producers may also accrue some benefit if production of the high-quality products draws on scarce factors that they own.

Date: 2008-08-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/server/api/core/bitstre ... d5e3250b969f/content
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
Journal Article: Geographical Indications and the Competitive Provision of Quality in Agricultural Markets (2008)
Working Paper: Geographical Indications and the Competitive Provision of Quality in Agricultural Markets (2008)
Working Paper: Geographical Indications and the Competitive Provision of Quality in Agricultural Markets (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:isu:genstf:200808010700001183

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ISU General Staff Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics Iowa State University, Dept. of Economics, 260 Heady Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1070. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Curtis Balmer (econwebmaster@iastate.edu).