Competitive pricing of information goods: Subscription pricing versus pay-per-use

Economic Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 447-470

  Fishburn, Peter C ^a   Odlyzko, Andrew M ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive equilibria; Internet pricing; Price wars; Subscription pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033248333     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050264     Document Type: Article

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