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Evaluating and selecting pricing models for competitive strategy game

Find information on pricing strategies in competitive environment:

• Business literature databases, such as ABI Inform and EBSCO Business Source Complete. 

Find academic journal articles. Suggested subject search terms: "pricing" combined with "competition" or "strategic planning". Also search under the combination of subjects "competitive advantage" and "pricing".

Examples of articles in EBSCO database:  

• Pricing in the customer-market model with uncertainty
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• Modeling the Psychology of Consumer and Firm Behavior with Behavioral Economics
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• Predicting Competitive Response to a Major Policy Change: Combining Game-Theoretic and Empirical Analyses
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Jackson Library Catalog: Find books and journals on the topic using "pricing" as the subject search terms. Some notable titles are:

• Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit
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• Pricing for Profitability: Activity-Based Pricing for Competitive Advantage
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• The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making
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• Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools
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Exploring issues in game theory

For books and journals, search Jackson Library Catalog using the subject term "game theory." Some notable titles are:

• Games of Strategy
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• Coalitions in Oligopolies: An Introduction to the Sequential Procedure
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• International Game Theory Review
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• Games and Economic Behavior
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For journal articles, search literature databases, such as ABI Inform and EBSCO Business Source Complete. 

Use "game theory" as a subject search term.

Exploring issues in competitive strategies

For books on competitive strategies, search Jackson Library Catalog using the subject term "competition". Notable titles are:

• Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
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• The Extended Enterprise: Gaining Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Supply Chains
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Key eJournals:

• Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 
• Journal of Industrial Economics 
• Review of Industrial Organization 

For more journal articles, search literature databases, such as ABI Inform and EBSCO Business Source Complete. 

Use "competitive advantage" as a subject search term or "competitive strategy" as title word search term.

Exploring issues in antitrust law

Find cases, rulings, and news items related to antitrust law in the Library's database:

• LexisNexis Academic- in the Legal Research section, find cases and regulations pertaining to Antitrust Law using "antitrust law" as a keyword search term. 

Check the following Web sites:

• Antitrust case browser: An easily searchable database including an option to search antitrust cases by product; key antitrust statutes; current news stories
• Primers on Antitrust Law & Policy: A Web page from the American Antitrust Institute containing articles on the basic antitrust law regulations written in digestive style and including such topics as horizontal and vertical restraints among competitors, price fixing, and more
• Virtual Chase: Contains useful links to online resources including government agencies: Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission

• MegaLaw.com: Latest and historical antitrust law decisions from US Supreme court and Appellate courts; full-text of federal antitrust statutes; links to antirust law related Web sites

Find journals articles and books:

• Business literature databases, such as ABI Inform and EBSCO Business Source Complete. 

Find journal and news articles using"antitrust law" as a subject or title word term. Selected articles include:

• Economic Analysis and Antitrust Damages
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• Modernizing U.S. Antitrust Law: The Role of Technology and Innovation
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• Courts and agencies refine US antitrust law
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Jackson Library Catalog: Find books on the topic using "antitrust law" as the subject search terms.