Incumbent and entrant response to regulated competition: Signaling with accounting costs and market prices

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 209-223

  Otero, Jesús ^a   Price, Catherine Waddams ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost allocation; Gas retail; Pricing structure; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004410318     PISSN: 00129933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0148-6195(00)00053-9     Document Type: Article

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