More competitors or more competition? Market concentration and the intensity of competition

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2011.11.001MaRDI QIDQ2440433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Flavio M. Menezes, J. Quiggin

Publication date 18 March 2014

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151195/files/RSMG%20Working%20Paper%20R11_1.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

competition intensitymergersnumber of competitors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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