Measuring market power in the ready-to-eat cereal industry

Econometrica

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-342

  Nevo, Aviv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete choice models; Market power; Price competition; Product differentiation; Random coefficients; Ready to eat cereal industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000306101     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00194     Document Type: Article

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