Price discrimination in service industries

Marketing Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 423-438

  Lambrecht, Anja ^a   Seim, Katja ^b   Vilcassim, Naufel ^a   Cheema, Amar ^c   Chen, Yuxin ^d   Crawford, Gregory S ^e   Hosanagar, Kartik ^b   Iyengar, Raghuram ^b   Koenigsberg, Oded ^a   Lee, Robin ^f   Miravete, Eugenio J ^g   Sahin, Ozge ^h  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Nonlinear pricing; Service industries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862128099     PISSN: 09230645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11002-012-9187-0     Document Type: Article

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