Cross-ownershipandstabilityinaCournotduopoly Fanti,LucianoandGori,Luca MunichPersonalRePEcArchive

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Cross-ownership and stability in a Cournot duopoly

Fanti, Luciano and Gori, Luca

Department of Economics, University of Pisa, Department of Law and Economics "G.L.M. Casaregi", University of Genoa

7 November 2011

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34574/

MPRA Paper No. 34574, posted 07 Nov 2011 18:36 UTC

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