Average-cost pricing, increasing returns, and optimal output: Comparing home and market production

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-192

  Ng, Yew Kwang ^a   Zhang, Dingsheng ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Average cost pricing; Fixed costs; Home production; Increasing returns; Monopolistic competition; Optimal output

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947198125     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-006-0229-z     Document Type: Article

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