Price competition, business hours and shopping time flexibility

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 531, 2008, Pages 1171-1195

  Shy, Oz ^a,b   Stenbacka, Rune ^c  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS; RETAILING; SHOPPING ACTIVITY;

EID: 50149094470     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02165.x     Document Type: Article

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