A retail benchmarking approach to efficient two-way access pricing: No termination-based price discrimination

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 822-849

  Jeon, Doh Shin ^a   Hurkens, Sjaak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Barcelona)

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EID: 54049143317     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2008.00040.x     Document Type: Article

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