Managerial and customer costs of price adjustment: Direct evidence from industrial markets

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 514-533

  Zbaracki, Mark J ^a   Ritson, Mark ^b   Levy, Daniel ^c   Dutta, Shantanu ^d   Bergen, Mark ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 2442521148     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465304323031085     Document Type: Review

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