Market Conduct and Endogenous Lobbying: Evidence from the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry
β Scribed by Tomaso Duso; Astrid Jung
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1566-1679
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