Chapter 34 Price Discrimination and Competition

Handbook of Industrial Organization

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2221-2299

  Stole, Lars A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Demand uncertainty; Imperfect competition; Market segmentation; Oligopoly; Price discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049095134     PISSN: 1573448X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-448X(06)03034-2     Document Type: Review

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