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Green Preferences and Sorting Location: D-105 Session Chair: Paul Christopher Missios, Toronto Metropolitan University | |
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Certification Across Borders: Credibility, Sorting, and Market Outcomes 1: Western University, Canada; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada This paper examines how global certification influences beliefs, prices, and welfare in markets with quality uncertainty. Certification regimes differ in strictness and therefore in the informativeness of the signals they provide to consumers. Firms sort into certification and exporting according to intrinsic quality, and these sorting patterns determine how informative each label is in equilibrium. In a symmetric benchmark, identical market environments generate common beliefs, prices, and welfare across countries. When markets differ in size, recognition of labels, or outside options, export selection alters the composition of certified products observed in each destination. As a result, identical certification technologies give rise to market-specific beliefs, price dispersion, and welfare differences. The analysis highlights how certification credibility emerges endogenously in integrated economies. | |