Product Selection, Fixed Costs, and Monopolistic Competition

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DOI10.2307/2297319zbMath0362.90013OpenAlexW2149622048MaRDI QIDQ4136866

Michael Spence

Publication date: 1976

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297319




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