Pricing superior goods: Utility generated by scarcity

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 529-538

  Yao, Shuntian ^a   Li, Ke ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; PRICE DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33747031687     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2005.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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