The discriminatory incentives to bundle in the cable television industry

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-78

  Crawford, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Cable television; Price discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649141858     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-007-9031-7     Document Type: Article

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