Let it be: Chaotic price instability can be beneficial

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 745-758

  Matsumoto, Akio ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

PRICE FLUCTUATIONS;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0037902288     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(03)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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