Arbeitspapier

On the (Ir)Relevance of Fee Structures in Certification

Restrictions on certifiers' fee structures are irrelevant for maximizing their profits and trade efficiency, and for the implementability of (monotone) distributions of rents. The irrelevance results exploit that certification schemes involve two substitutable dimensions – the fee structure and the disclosure rule – and adaptations in the disclosure dimension can mitigate restrictions on the fee dimension. While restrictions on fee structures do affect market transparency, it has no impact on economic efficiency or rent distributions.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 391

Classification
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Subject
certification
fee structures
disclosure rules
transparency

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pollrich, Martin
Strausz, Roland
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
(where)
München und Berlin
(when)
2023

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Pollrich, Martin
  • Strausz, Roland
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition

Time of origin

  • 2023

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