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Richard Schmalensee, Collusion Versus Differential Efficiency: Testing Alternative Hypotheses, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 35, No. 4, The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics (Jun., 1987), pp. 399-425
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