Overcoming informational barriers to international resource allocation: Prices and ties

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 484, 2003, Pages 21-42

  Rauch, James E ^a   Casella, Alessandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRICING POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 0037252668     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00090     Document Type: Article

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