Loss leading and price intervention in multiproduct retailing: Welfare outcomes in a second-best world

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-347

  Walsh, Patrick Paul ^a   Whelan, Ciara ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0033194327     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8188(99)00015-0     Document Type: Article

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