Competition and price discrimination in the market for mailing lists

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-179

  Borzekowski, Ron ^a   Thomadsen, Raphael ^b   Taragin, Charles ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c United States Department of Justice   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Direct marketing; Price discrimination; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349116335     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-009-9050-7     Document Type: Article

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