Asymmetric vertical integration

Advances in Theoretical Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Buehler, Stefan ^a,b   Schmutzler, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Foreclosure; Successive oligopolies; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844350037     PISSN: 15345963     EISSN: 15345963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5963.1164     Document Type: Review

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