Business groups and competition in post-Soviet transition economies: The case of Russian "agroholdings"

Review of Austrian Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-450

  Wandel, Jürgen ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business groups; Competition; Russia; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053912234     PISSN: 08893047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-011-0152-6     Document Type: Article

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