On the uniqueness of the welfare-maximizing number of firms under cournot oligopoly

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-222

  Ohkawa, Takao ^a   Okamura, Makoto ^a  

^a KOBE CITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOPOLY; RENT SEEKING; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 0037386913     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8586.00171     Document Type: Article

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