Costly collusion in differentiated industries

Marketing Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 660-665

  Thomadsen, Raphael ^a   Rhee, Ki Eun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Korea Development Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Collusion; Competition; Game theory; Product differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549144909     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1060.0255     Document Type: Article

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