International Trade, Minimum Quality Standards and the Prisoners' Dilemma
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- Petropoulou, Dimitra, 2008. "International trade, minimum quality standards and the prisoners' dilemma," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 19626, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Keywords
standards; quality; international trade; standard coordination;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- F19 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Other
- F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INT-2008-06-07 (International Trade)
- NEP-MIC-2008-06-07 (Microeconomics)
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