Bounding the relative profitability of price discrimination

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 995-1011

  Malueg, David A ^a   Snyder, Christopher M ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Profit bounds; Third degree price discrimination; Uniform pricing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FUNCTIONS; MARKETING;

PROFIT BOUNDS; THIRD-DEGREE PRICE DISCRIMINATION; UNIFORM PRICING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33746639191     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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