International trade and competitiveness

Economic Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 727-763

  Garcia Pires, Armando J ^a  

^a Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration   (Norway)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Endogenous asymmetric firms; Home market effect; International trade; Oligopoly; R D investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864406345     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-010-0586-2     Document Type: Article

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