Private label price rigidity during holiday periods

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-62

  Müller, Georg ^a   Bergen, Mark ^b   Dutta, Shantanu ^c   Levy, Daniel ^d  

^a One Lincoln Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRICING POLICY; RETAILING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31744434619     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500378247     Document Type: Article

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