Price markups and returns to scale in imperfect markets: Bulgaria and Hungary

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 92-110

  Dobrinsky, Rumen ^a   Korösi, Gábor ^b,d   Markov, Nikolay ^c   Halpern, László ^b,d  

^a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c Centre for Economic and Strategic Research   (Bulgaria)

^d CEPR ^*  (Hungary)

Author keywords

Imperfect competition; Market structure; Price markups; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645144592     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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