Pricing music using personal data: mutually advantageous first-degree price discrimination

Electronic Markets

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-154

  Rayna, Thierry ^a   Darlington, John ^b   Striukova, Ludmila ^c  

^a Novancia Business School Paris   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital economy; First degree price discrimination; Personal data; Pricing models; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027925760     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-014-0165-7     Document Type: Article

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