Spatial Price Discrimination: The Use of Parking Coupons by Downtown Retailers

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 417-438

  Lindsey, C Robin ^a   West, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupons; Price discrimination; Retailers; Shopping center competition

Indexed keywords

DESTINATION CHOICE MODEL; PARKING COUPON; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; SHOPPING BEHAVIOUR; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 0031457438     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007795629282     Document Type: Article

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