In distribution systems such as airlines and express package delivery, the use of hub-and-spoke networks is common, and flow consolidation at hub facilities is essential for cost reduction. While a constant discount factor is typically used to model cost reduction in interhub links, this paper...

Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative-statics omitting a channel implied by their model: the link between common determinants of a location's...

The subject of this study is to create technologies to identify a center of innovation and industrial clusters, which would provide their effective economic and financial, information and logistics interaction. For this purpose, the paper proposes a method for solving the problem of locating an...

State boundaries in the United States reflect natural, historical and political considerations. There are many ways in which to study the resulting geography. In this work we offer a new perspective in finding the locations in the U.S. that are closest to the most states. The most well known of...

Manufacturing companies have recently been seeking differentiation and profit enhancement through the servitization of products. The service economy, with the increase in its proportion of service sector in the total employment and values added, is also accelerating in the developed countries....