Too close to be similar: Product and price competition in retail gasoline markets

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-234

  Iyer, Ganesh ^a   Seetharaman, P B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal differentiation; Multivariate logit; Price competition; Product competition; Retail gasoline markets; Spatial models; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 48649099706     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-008-9038-8     Document Type: Article

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