Evaluating wireless carrier consolidation using semiparametric demand estimation

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-338

  Bajari, Patrick ^a,b   Fox, Jeremy T ^c   Ryan, Stephen P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Antitrust; Demand estimation; Discrete choice; Market share ranks; Mergers; Mobile phones; Online; Semiparametric; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149110749     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-008-9044-x     Document Type: Article

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