Interstate Long Distance Rates: Search Costs, Switching Costs, and Market Power

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 519-536

  Knittel, Christopher R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Market power; Search costs; Switching costs

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; LONG DISTANCE RATES; SEARCH COSTS; SWITCHING COSTS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEPHONE SERVICES;

USA;

EID: 0031439298     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007785307504     Document Type: Article

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