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...

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Published in:	Southern Economic Journal Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 464 - 481
Main Authors:	Zheng, Yuqing, Kaiser, Harry M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Oct2012
Subjects:	Scholarly periodicals Price discrimination Science periodicals Periodical sales & prices Periodical publishing
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