A note on the Hotelling principle of minimum differentiation: Imitation and crowd

Research in Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 122-129

  Di Cintio, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crowd; Externality; Hotelling; Imitation; Product differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548189542     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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