Pricing prototypical products

Marketing Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 733-752

  Amaldoss, Wilfred ^a   He, Chuan ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Center for AI and Institutions at CKGSB   (China)

Author keywords

Competition; Experimental economics; Game theory; Pricing; Prototypical product

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884938767     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.2013.0793     Document Type: Article

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