Price discrimination with partial information: Does it pay off?

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-31

  Esteves, Rosa Branca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Competitive price discrimination; Partial information; Profit effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349084320     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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