A price competition game under free entry

Economic Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 395-414

  Yano, Makoto ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bertrand price competition; Competitive outcome; Free entry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747867636     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-005-0028-8     Document Type: Article

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