...Plus shipping and handling: Revenue (non) equivalence in field experiments on eBay

Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 63-91

  Hossain, Tanjim ^a   Morgan, John ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

E retailing; Field experiments; Internet auctions; Loss aversion; Mental accounting; Price framing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645356970     PISSN: 15380637     EISSN: 15380637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jda.2006.0005     Document Type: Article

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