Endogenous costs and price-cost margins: An application to the European airline industry

Journal of Industrial Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 351-368

  Neven, Damien J ^a   Röller, Lars Hendrik ^b   Zhang, Zhentang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 33748310755     PISSN: 00221821     EISSN: 14676451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6451.2006.00292.x     Document Type: Article

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