Prices, promotions, and supermarket mergers

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Davis, David E ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antitrust; food prices; market power; pricing promotion; sales

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649848862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1312     Document Type: Article

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