Decentralization, transfer pricing, and tacit collusion

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 581-604

  Shor, Mikhael ^a   Chen, Hui ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collusion; Strategic delegation; Transfer pricing; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249116154     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.26.2.10     Document Type: Article

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