J. M. Connor and E. B. Peterson (1992) analyzes structural and behavioral characteristics explaining differences in price between competing national and private label brands of manufactured food products. J. Hiloopen and S. Martin's (1995) comment points out an error in reporting results and an...

We introduce a cost of location into Hotelling’s (1929) spatial duopoly. We derive the general conditions on the cost-of-location function under which a pure strategy price-location Nash equilibrium exists. With linear transportation cost and a suitably specified cost of location that rises...