Price and seller concentration in cement: Effective oligopoly or misspecified transportation cost?

Economics Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-250

  Newmark, Craig M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cement; Concentration; L11; Price

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032333989     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00109-8     Document Type: Article

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