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‘Everything must go!’- Cournot as a Stable Convention within Strategic Supply Function Competition

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  • Michal Król, 2012. "‘Everything must go!’- Cournot as a Stable Convention within Strategic Supply Function Competition," Economics Discussion Paper Series 1217, Economics, The University of Manchester.
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