True Monopolistic Competition as a Result of Imperfect Information

DOI10.2307/1885694zbMath0604.90026OpenAlexW2045686232MaRDI QIDQ3741344

Asher Wolinsky

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1885694

zbMATH Keywords

oligopolistic marketlarge group monopolistic competition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24)

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