Capacity expansion and dynamic monopoly pricing

Research in Economics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 169-178

  Demichelis, S ^a   Tarola, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Economic behaviour; Firm size; Planning investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751163275     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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