Retail mergers, buyer power and product variety

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 516, 2007, Pages 45-67

  Inderst, Roman ^a   Shaffer, Greg ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; MERGER; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PURCHASING POWER PARITY; RETAILING;

EID: 33846364298     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02001.x     Document Type: Article

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