Dynamic pricing with strategic customers

Journal of Business Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 505-549

  Gönsch, Jochen ^a   Klein, Robert ^a   Neugebauer, Michael ^a   Steinhardt, Claudius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Optimization; Strategic customers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904688135     PISSN: 00442372     EISSN: 18618928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11573-013-0663-7     Document Type: Article

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