Illinois Walls: How barring indirect purchaser suits facilitates collusion

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 683-698

  Schinkel, Maarten Pieter ^a   Tuinstra, Jan ^a   Rüggeberg, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 54049158544     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2008.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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