Imperfect competition in German food retailing: Evidence from State level data

Atlantic Economic Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-454

  Anders, Sven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

BSE; Conjectural variation; Food retailing; Germany; Meat marketing; Oligopoly; Oligopsony

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249096680     PISSN: 01974254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11293-008-9136-8     Document Type: Article

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