A Textbook Example of International Price Discrimination
Posted: 11 Feb 2008
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A Textbook Example of International Price Discrimination
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 05-26
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 28 Sep 2005
Last Revised: 07 Aug 2008
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Abstract
We show that books for general audiences are similarly priced internationally but textbooks are substantially more expensive in the United States. We argue that cost factors cannot explain this phenomenon and discuss several demand-side explanations.
Keywords: International price discrimination, book industry, textbooks
JEL Classification: L15, L83
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Cabolis, Christos and Clerides, Sofronis and Ioannou, Ioannis and Senft, Daniel, A Textbook Example of International Price Discrimination. Economics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 1, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1090528
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