Durable-goods monopoly with varying demand

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 391-413

  Board, Simon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASYMMETRY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; MONOPOLY; OPTIMIZATION; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 40449142546     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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