Monopoly price discrimination and demand curvature

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1601-1615

  Aguirre, Iñaki ^a   Cowan, Simon ^b   Vickers, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956979462     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1601     Document Type: Article

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