Counterintuitive number effects in experimental oligopolies

Experimental Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 390-401

  Orzen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Market concentration; Tacit collusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949096121     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-007-9174-0     Document Type: Article

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