Cartel stability in advertising-intensive and R&D-intensive industries

Economics Letters

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 121-129

  Symeonidis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advertising; Cartel stability; D43; Firm heterogeneity; L13; R D; Vertical product differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011966530     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00217-1     Document Type: Article

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