Market Power in Regional Retail Gasoline Markets? An Empirical Analysis

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Drescher, Klaus ^a   McNamara, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration; Cournot model; Gasoline market; Market power

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644445045     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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