Price adjustment at multiproduct retailers

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-120

  Levy, Daniel ^a   Dutta, Shantanu ^b   Bergen, Mark ^c   Venable, Robert ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Robert W Baird and Co   (United States)

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EID: 0002364453     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1468(199803)19:2<81::AID-MDE867>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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