Private and social incentives towards investment in product differentiation

International Game Theory Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 493-508

  Cellini, Roberto ^a   Lambertini, Luca ^b  

^a University of Catania and CESifo Research Network   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential games; Product differentiation; Research and development; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644438575     PISSN: 02191989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219198904000320     Document Type: Article

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