Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori

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Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori

Stability in a Cournot duopoly under asymmetric unionism

Discussion Paper n. 123

2011

Discussion Paper n. 123: presentato Settembre 2011

Luciano Fanti

Department of Economics, University of Pisa Via Cosimo Ridolfi, 10, I–56124 Pisa (PI), Italy e-mail address: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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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