Predicting the price effect of mergers with polynomial logit demand

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-157

  Saha, Atanu ^a   Simon, Peter ^a  

^a Bureau of Labor Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitrust; Discrete Choice; Logit; Mergers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442328263     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: 14661829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510050084497     Document Type: Article

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