PRICE ELASTICITIES AND SOCIAL WELFARE IN SECONDARY ELECTRONIC MARKETS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 611-614

  Ghose, Anindya ^a   Telang, Rahul ^b   Smith, Michael D ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer surplus; electronic markets; price competition; Publisher welfare; retailer welfare; used books sales

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PROFITABILITY;

CONSUMER'S SURPLUS; ELECTRONIC MARKET; GROSS PROFIT; PRICE COMPETITION; PRICE-ELASTICITY; PUBLISHER WELFARE; RETAILER WELFARE; SECONDARY MARKET; SOCIAL WELFARE; USED BOOK SALE;

SALES;

EID: 28844444650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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