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Pleasures of Cockaigne: Quality Gaps, Market Structure, and the Amount of Grading

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  • Sylvette Monier-Dilhan
  • Hervé Ossard

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The article explores under what circumstances high-quality producers would not voluntarily submit to grading when low-quality firms would readily do so and under what conditions high-quality firms would have a lesser proportion of their output graded than would their low-quality counterparts. It also investigates how market structure affects the decison to grade, establishing that a competitive industry carries out the optimal amount of grading. When some firms have finite market shares, the industry engages in excessive grading. Copyright 1999, Oxford University Press.

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  • Sylvette Monier-Dilhan & Hervé Ossard, 1999. "Pleasures of Cockaigne: Quality Gaps, Market Structure, and the Amount of Grading," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 81(3), pages 501-511.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:81:y:1999:i:3:p:501-511
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    9. Séverine Gaucher & Louis-Georges Soler & Hervé Tanguy, 2002. "Incitation à la qualité dans la relation vignoble-négoce," Post-Print hal-01200937, HAL.
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