Antitrust and sales-below-cost laws: The case of retail gasoline

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-204

  Anderson, Rod W ^a   Johnson, Ronald N ^b  

^a WE Upjohn Institute for Employment Research   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gasoline; Predation; Sales below cost

Indexed keywords

ENERGY MARKET; FUEL; PETROLEUM; RETAILING;

EID: 0032764382     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007728100373     Document Type: Article

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