Antitrust: Results from the laboratory

Research in Experimental Economics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-60

  Wellford, Charissa P ^a  

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EID: 35448929140     PISSN: 01932306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0193-2306(02)09002-6     Document Type: Article

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