Monopolistic group design with peer effects

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-125

  Board, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanism design; Network effects; Peer effects; Public goods

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549103009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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