Upstream Partnerships among Competitors when Size Matters
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upstream partnership; imperfect competition; endogenous marginal costs;All these keywords.
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- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2017-11-12 (Business Economics)
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