On the use of substitutability as a measure of competition

Topics in Macroeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Koeniger, Winfried ^a,c   Licandro, Omar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bertrand competition; Dixit Stiglitz; Market structure; Monopolistic competition; Substitutability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750180181     PISSN: 15345998     EISSN: 15345998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1283     Document Type: Article

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