Quantity precommitment and price-matching
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2013.06.001
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- Norovsambuu Tumennasan, 2011. "Quantity Precommitment and Price Matching," Economics Working Papers 2011-13, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
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Price matching; Capacity constraint; Quantity precommitment;All these keywords.
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