Markets: Gift cards

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-238

  Offenberg, Jennifer Pate ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547377137     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.21.2.227     Document Type: Article

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