Multimarket market power estimation: the Australian retail meat sector

Applied Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1169-1176

  Hyde, Charles E ^a,b   Perloff, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD INDUSTRY; MARKET CONDITIONS; NATIONAL TRADE; RETAILING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 13044287370     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368498325066     Document Type: Article

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