Cost Economies: A Driving Force for Consolidation and Concentration?
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- Catherine J. Morrison Paul, 2003. "Cost Economies: A Driving Force for Consolidation and Concentration?," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 70(1), pages 110-127, July.
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