Taste for variety and optimum production patterns in monopolistic competition

Economics Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-47

  Benassy, Jean Pascal ^a  

^a NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Monopolistic competition; Taste for variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305825     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(96)00834-8     Document Type: Article

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