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Measuring the Importance of Sunk Costs

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Timothy F. Bresnahan
Peter C. Reiss

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Volume (Year): (1994)
Issue (Month): 34 (Avril-Juin)
Pages: 08
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  1. Schmalensee, Richard, 1981. "Economies of Scale and Barriers to Entry," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 89(6), pages 1228-38, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. McDonald, Robert L & Siegel, Daniel R, 1985. "Investment and the Valuation of Firms When There Is an Option to Shut Down," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 26(2), pages 331-49, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Ghemawat, Pankaj & Caves, Richard E, 1986. "Capital Commitment and Profitability: An Empirical Investigation," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 38(0), pages 94-110, Suppl. No.
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  10. Richard Baldwin, 1988. "Hysteresis In Import Prices: The Beachhead Effect," NBER Working Papers 2545, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Ariel Pakes & Richard Ericson, 1989. "Empirical Implications of Alternative Models of Firm Dynamics," NBER Working Papers 2893, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  12. Reiss, Peter C & Spiller, Pablo T, 1989. "Competition and Entry in Small Airline Markets," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 32(2), pages S179-202, October.
  13. Macleod, W.B. & Bergin, J., 1988. "Entry, Sunk Costs And Renegotiation In Duopoly," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 111-89, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
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  14. Bentley MacLeod, 1986. "Entry, Sunk Costs and Market Structure," Working Papers 649, Queen's University, Department of Economics.
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  15. Ghemawat, Pankaj & Nalebuff, Barry, 1990. "The Devolution of Declining Industries," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 105(1), pages 167-86, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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