Endogenous average cost based access pricing

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-162

  Fjell, Kenneth ^a   Foros, Øystein ^a   Pal, Debashis ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Access regulation; Competition; Non discrimination

Indexed keywords

COST; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

EID: 77952094274     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: 15737160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-010-9238-8     Document Type: Article

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