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Delegation Commitment in Oligopoly

✍ Scribed by Ya-Chin Wang; Leonard F. S. Wang

Book ID
106387151
Publisher
Springer US
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
176 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
1566-1679

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