A comment on Bradburd: "Privatisation of natural monopolies"

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 869-882

  Willner, Johan ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Cost efficiency; Monopoly; Privatisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041986820     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00174413     Document Type: Review

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