Probabilistic goods: A creative way of selling products and services

Marketing Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-690

  Fay, Scott ^a   Xie, Jinhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

E commerce; Inventory management; Opaque goods; Price discriminating; Pricing; Probabilistic goods; Probabilistic selling; Product differentiation; Product line; Yield management

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549121699     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1070.0318     Document Type: Article

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