Discussion Papers
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E-papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche – Università di Pisa
Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori
Stability analysis in a Bertrand duopoly with different product quality and heterogeneous expectations
Discussion Paper n. 122
2011
Discussion Paper n. 122: presentato Settembre 2011
Luciano Fanti
Department of Economics, University of Pisa Via Cosimo Ridolfi, 10, I–56124 Pisa (PI), Italy e-mail address: lfanti@ec.unipi.it
tel.: +39 050 22 16 369 fax: +39 050 22 16 384
Luca Gori
Department of Law and Economics “G.L.M. Casaregi”, University of Genoa Via Balbi, 30/19, I–16126 Genoa (GE), Italy
e-mail address: luca.gori@unige.it
tel.: +39 010 209 95 03 fax: +39 010 209 55 36
© Luciano Fanti e Luca Gori
La presente pubblicazione ottempera agli obblighi previsti dall’art. 1 del decreto legislativo luogotenenziale 31 agosto 1945, n. 660.
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