Can market power really be estimated?

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-124

  Boyer, Kenneth D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Market power measurement; Oligopoly pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000136262     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00163602     Document Type: Article

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