Self-reinforcing market dominance

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 481-502

  Halbheer, Daniel ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^a   Goette, Lorenz ^b   Schmutzler, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric oligopoly; Cost reducing investment; Experimental study; Increasing dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349308427     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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