In many countries, various eco-labels have emerged for informing consumers about the
environmental impact of the offered products. Using recent advances in the empirical and …

Building on the empirical case of the EU-US trade dispute on hormone-treated beef, an
analytical framework, where consumers are imperfectly informed about the quality of …

We use cartel theory to analyse the influence of common labelling in agricultural markets. An
analytical framework of adverse selection where consumers are imperfectly informed about …

Many food traits desired by consumers are costly to provide and difficult to verify. A
complicating factor is that delivered quality can only be affected stochastically by producers …

Eco-labels are essential for informing consumers about products' environmental
characteristics. However, the many different labels consumers encounter can be confusing …

In recent years, the discussion regarding instruments of environmental policy has slightly
changed its focus. When inefficiencies in direct regulation became obvious, economic …

An analytical framework where consumers are imperfectly informed about the safety of
products is used to investigate the welfare effects of a public certification system. Several …

An intriguing alternative to traditional methods for regulating externalities is the provision of
information about firms' environmental attributes. An increasingly important example of this …

Every new method of trade offers an opportunity for economic agents to compare its costs
and benefits relative to the status quo. Such comparison motivates sorting across market …

In the last couple of decades, eco-labels to identify green products have grown substantially
in Europe and to some extent in the United States. In fact, in some countries so many labels …