Price Discrimination in the Subscription Market for Economics Journals.
We examine what factors affect the degree of price discrimination for an academic journal by analyzing data on 190 of the 208 economics journals indexed in the 2008 edition of Journal Citation Reports. We find that (i) the library-to-individual price ratio of a for-profit journal is 37% higher than...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 464 - 481 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2012
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