Market structure and incentives to innovate: The case of Cournot oligopoly

Economics Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 379-388

  Yi, Sang Seung ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cournot oligopoly; Incentives to innovate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033235671     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00169-x     Document Type: Article

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