Collusion in the Dutch waste collection market

Local Government Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 573-588

  Dijkgraaf, Elbert ^a   Gradus, Raymond ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 34547501364     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: 17439388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003930701417601     Document Type: Article

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