Competitive product lines with quality constraints

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Schmidt Mohr, Udo ^a   Villas Boas, J Miguel ^b  

^a DEKA Investment GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Price discrimination; Product lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649129123     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-007-9021-9     Document Type: Article

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