Price floors and competition

Economic Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 211-224

  Dufwenberg, Martin ^a   Gneezy, Uri ^b   Goeree, Jacob K ^c   Nagel, Rosemarie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bertrand model; Experiment; Luce model; Price competition; Price floors

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547216912     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0152-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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