Nonparametric analysis of cost complementarities in the telecommunications industry

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 870-889

  Beresteanu, Arie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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