The long-run inefficiency of block-rate pricing

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 471-492

  Bar Shira, Ziv ^a   Finkelshtain, Israel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 33750091369     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2000.tb00044.x     Document Type: Article

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