The price premium for wine quality signals: Does retailers' information provision matter?

British Food Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 669-679

  Boatto, Vasco ^a   Defrancesco, Edi ^a   Trestini, Samuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Premium pricing; Product quality; Wines

Indexed keywords

VITACEAE;

EID: 79955943371     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070701111131764     Document Type: Article

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