Higher Minimum Quality Standards and Redistributive Effects on Consumer Welfare

We empirically examine the redistributive effects of higher minimum quality standards on consumer welfare. More specifically, we study the impact of the European Union's ban on battery eggs, the previous minimum quality standard, on household egg purchases and evaluate its redistributive effect on consumer welfare.

• 저널Marketing Science · 39(1) · 253–280
• 토픽Merger and Competition Analysis · Economics and Econometrics
• DOI10.1287/mksc.2019.1172
• 저자Marco J.W. Kotschedoff, Max J. Pachali