Price discrimination by language: Field experimental evidence from a shopping mall
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Keywords
Price discrimination; Language; Price negotiation; Haggling; Signaling; Willingness to pay; Field experiment;All these keywords.
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- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
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