Strategic groups and product differentiation: Evidence from the Spanish airline market deregulation
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Within group rivalry; Between group rivalry; Strategic groups; Product differentiation; Airline industry; Conjectural variations model; Spanish domestic market;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
- L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation
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