The great school milk conspiracies of the 1980s

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 413-458

  Lanzillotti, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitrust; Collusion; Game theory; Sealed bidding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000715044     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00157772     Document Type: Article

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