Price dispersion of online air tickets for short distance international routes

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1597-1613

  Lin, Pei Chun ^a   Chen, Chen Cheng ^b   Song, Mei Hui ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hedonic regression model; Online air tickets; Price dispersion

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERNET; MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE SECTOR; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70449101005     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642060902793367     Document Type: Article

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