Strategic Delegation under Quality Competition

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-56

  Ishibashi, Koji ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delegation; Incentive scheme; Price competition; Quality competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347238368     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02339580     Document Type: Article

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