Evaluating market attractiveness: Individual incentives versus industry profitability

Computational Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-355

  Dawid, Herbert ^a   Reimann, Marc ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Innovation dynamics; Market attractiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044552032     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-005-6158-z     Document Type: Article

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