Is there collusion in the retail gasoline market? An empirical approach;¿Competencia o colusión en el mercado de gasolina? una aproximación a través del parámetro de conducta

Revista de Economia Aplicada

Volumn 17, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 27-45

  Perdiguero, Jordi ^a   Jiménez, Juan Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competition Policy; Conduct parameter; Gasoline; Oligopolistic competition; Simultaneous equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349895053     PISSN: 1133455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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