Permanent demand excess as business strategy: an analysis of the Brazilian higher-education market

Many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) establish tuition below the equilibrium price to generate permanent demand excess. This paper first adapts Becker’s (1991) theory to understand why the HEIs price in this way. The fact that students are both consumers and inputs on the education production p...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo Menon Simões Moita, Carlos Eduardo Lobo e Silva, Eduardo de Carvalho Andrade
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-03-01
Series:RAUSP: Revista de Administração da Universidade de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-21072015000100002&lng=en&tlng=en