The dynamics of price cost margins: Evidence from uk manufacturing

Revue de l'OFCE

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 303-318

  Görg, Holger ^a   Warzynski, Frederic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Firm level data; Price cost margins; Single market program; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650255754     PISSN: 12659576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/reof.073.0303     Document Type: Review

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