widely known as Stackelberg competition, has had tremendous impact on the theory of the firm and economic analysis in general …

The book focuses classical oligopoly theory as developed in 1840-1940. By the end of this period oligopoly came under … the spell of game theory in its probabilistic equilibrium format. Work by Cournot, von Stackelberg, Palander, and … that the whole idea of rational expectations is untenable in dynamic oligopoly. Early original ideas in oligopoly theory …

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm … Greenhut-Manne, Hitchcock-Koopmans, and Weber-Launhardt. The book reinterprets competitive location theory, focusing on the … theory offers diverse ideas about the nature of market equilibrium in geographic space and its implications for a broad range …

Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly … problem oriented. However, a common theory, which keeps the essential characteristics of classical location models, is still … introduced. For all three main subareas of location theory (continuous, network and discrete location) structural properties of …