Market power screens willingness-to-pay

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1971-2003

  Glen Weyl, E ^a   Tirole, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; MARKET CONDITIONS; MONOPOLY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84870336838     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjs032     Document Type: Article

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