Sequential pricing of multiple products: Leveraging revealed preferences of retail customers online and with auto-ID technologies

Information Systems Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 372-393

  Aloysius, John ^a   Deck, Cary ^b   Farmer, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical modeling; Complements substitutes; Correlated product values; Electronic commerce; Electronic markets and auctions; Mixed bundling; Online shopping carts; Price discrimination; RFID; Sequential pricing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PROFITABILITY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SALES; VEHICLES;

COMPLEMENTS/SUBSTITUTES; ELECTRONIC MARKETS AND AUCTIONS; MIXED BUNDLING; ONLINE SHOPPING; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; PRODUCT VALUE;

COSTS;

EID: 84878965401     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1120.0440     Document Type: Article

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