This article introduces technology choice into a Hotelling model of spatial competition. This yields two entry deterrence devices, as well as complex strategic choices for the firms and a rich of industry structure. Depending on cost parameters and market size, firms may choose to over-invest or...

This paper shows that vertical foreign direct investemt will reduce prices but the aggregate welfare effect is unambiguaously positive only under free market entry. Using a standard model of imperfect competition, we develop this result by considering two different cases. In the first case, the...

This article adds technology choice to a free-entry Cournot model with linear demand and constant marginal costs. Firms can choose from a discrete set of technologies. This simple framework yields non-existence of equilibrium, existence of multiple equilibria and equilibria in which ex-ante...