Product differentiation when competing with the suppliers of bottleneck inputs

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-53

  Brito, Duarte ^a   Pereira, Pedro ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b AdC   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Access price; Horizontal differentiation; Location

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DIFFERENTIATION; FIRM SIZE; MARKET SYSTEM; PRICE DYNAMICS; RETAILING;

EID: 57349134473     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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