研討日期	2022年7月18日上午10:30~ 12:30
研討地點	國立臺灣大學社會科學院710會議室
主講題目 Title of the paper	Minimum Quality Standards and Collusion
作者 Authors of the paper	Giulio Ecchia and Luca Lambertini
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS 0022-1821 Volume XLV March 1997 No. 1
主講人	王羿傑
參加人員	王羿傑、王光正、施姵全、高國峯、張瑞雲、許至乙、蘇家叡、郭文忠、丁虹仁
摘要 Abstract of the paper	We model the introduction of a minimum quality standard in a vertically differentiated duopoly. We extend the literature by determining the standard endogenously, showing that the maximisation of social welfare entails an increase in the surplus accruing to consumers served by the low quality ¢rm and a decrease in the surplus of the remaining consumers. Then, we consider the effects of the standard on the stability of price collusion, proving that the standard makes it more difficult for ¢rms to collude if consumers are sufficiently rich.