Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 355-366

  Odlyzko, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet and railroads; Price discrimination; Privacy

Indexed keywords

INTERNET AND RAILROADS; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; PRIVACY;

CAMERAS; COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MARKETING; ONLINE SEARCHING; PERSONNEL; RAILROADS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INTERNET;

EID: 1142268161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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