The nonprofit sector and industry performance

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 1681-1698

  Lakdawalla, Darius ^a,b   Philipson, Tomas ^b,c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c The Law School   (United States)

Author keywords

Market structure; Nonprofit firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746643013     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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