Antitrust analysis of supermarkets: Global concerns playing out in local markets

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-32

  Cotterill, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Market concentration; Market definition; Nash Bertrand conduct; Price transmission rate; Price cost margin; Unilateral and coordinated market power

Indexed keywords

MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS; RETAILING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33645978075     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2006.00322.x     Document Type: Review

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