Naming your own price mechanisms: Revenue gain or drain?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 725-737

  Shapiro, Dmitry ^a   Zillante, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laboratory experiment; Name Your Own Price mechanism; Priceline; Reverse pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350378566     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2009.07.012     Document Type: Article

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