What role should public enterprises play in free-entry markets?

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-230

  Ino, Hiroaki ^a   Matsumura, Toshihiro ^b  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commitment; Cournot; Free entry market; Mixed oligopoly; Stackelberg

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049421364     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-010-0153-0     Document Type: Article

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