Vertical Integration as a Self-Enforcing Contractual Arrangement

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 415-420

  Klein, Benjamin ^a   Murphy, Kevin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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