Price discrimination in E-commerce? An examination of dynamic pricing in name-your-own price markets

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-98

  Hinz, Oliver ^a   Hann, Il Horn ^b   Spann, Martin ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bargaining games; Customer satisfaction; Dynamic pricing; Electronic commerce; Name your own price

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PROFITABILITY;

ADAPTIVE MECHANISM; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; BARGAINING GAME; DYNAMIC PRICING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NAME-YOUR-OWN-PRICE; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PRICE DISCRIMINATION;

SALES;

EID: 80051770277     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/23043490     Document Type: Article

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