TI 2001-115/1
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper
Two Firms is Enough for
Competition, but Three or
More is Better
Maarten C.W. Janssen
José Luis Moraga-González
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Tinbergen
Institute
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