Fixed fee versus unit pricing for information goods: Competition, equilibria, and price wars

First Monday

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1997, Pages

  Fishburn, Peter ^a   Odlysko, Andrew M ^a,b   Siders, Ryan C ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 2542438610     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v2i7.535     Document Type: Review

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