Evaluating traditional share - Price and residual demand measures of market power in the catsup industry

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-306

  Haller, Lawrence E ^a   Cotterill, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Market power; Product differentiation; Residual demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008281867     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00414400     Document Type: Review

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