Endogenous imitation and implications for technology policy

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 360-381

  Kanniainen, Vesa ^a   Stenbacka, Rune ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

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