Second-degree price discrimination for information goods under nonlinear utility functions

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 179-

  Bhargava, H ^a   Choudhary, V ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information goods; Market segmentation; Multiproduct monopolist; Price discrimination

Indexed keywords

COSTS; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION GOODS; NONLINEAR UTILITY FUNCTIONS; PRICE DISCRIMINATION;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS;

EID: 0034975567     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2001.927070     Document Type: Article

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