Technology and market structure : theory and history /

Traditionally, the field of industrial organization has relied on two unrelated theories—the cross-section theory and the growth-of-firms theory—to explain cross-industry differences in concentration and within-industry skewness. The two approaches are based on very different mathematical structures...

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Main Author: Sutton, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 1999
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