Price uniformity and competition in a retail gasoline market

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-237

  Eckert, Andrew ^a   West, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Retail gasoline pricing; Tacit collusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944237442     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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