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Contestable monopolistic competition : an application of contestability to spatial competition

Brunekreeft, Gert - 1997

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The empirics of spatial competition: Evidence from European regions

Brown, Nestor Duch - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2006

The New Economic Geography literature allows detailed analysis of the factors that determine the location decisions of firms in integrated markets. However, the competitive process is modelled in a rather rudimentary way, and the empirical evidence has usually been obtained from reduced-form...

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Product differentiation and spatial agglomeration in a unidirectional Cournot model

Andree, Kai - In: Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 4 (2011) 3, pp. 167-172

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Agglomeration in a city with choosy consumers under imperfect information

Takahashi, Takaaki - In: Journal of Urban Economics 76 (2013) C, pp. 28-42

available varieties among consumers can lead to the agglomeration of commercial activities. Here, the source of agglomeration is … matching. By constructing a two-region model, we show that two distribution patterns – segregation and full agglomeration – may … agglomeration – may emerge when consumers pay different amounts of transport cost. …

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Differentiated Bertrand markets: restoring the minimum differentiation principle

Colombo, Stefano - In: Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 6 (2013) 2, pp. 103-108

I introduce non-perfect substitutability between products into the spatial Bertrand model. I show that if goods are complements, the firms always agglomerate. If goods are substitutes, the firms agglomerate if the transportation costs are not too high. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg...

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Why Are Wal-Mart and Target Next-Door Neighbors?

Schuetz, Jenny - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

One of the most notable changes in the U.S. retail market over the past twenty years has been the rise of Big Box stores, retail chains characterized by physically large stores selling a wide range of consumer goods at discount prices. A growing literature has examined the impacts of Big Box...

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Hospital Health Care: Pricing and Quality Control in a Spatial Model with Asymmetry of Information

Levaggi, Rosella - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5 (2005) 4, pp. 327-349

The cost of hospital care depends on the quality of the service, on the personal characteristics of the patient, on the effort of the medical staff and on information asymmetry. In this article the cost minimizing properties of alternative payment systems will be discussed in a context where...

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Menu Costs, Sticky Prices, and Strategic Firm Interaction

Bernhardt, Dan - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1987

Sticky nominal prices represent a cornerstone of many macroeconomic models. The effects of price adjustment on strategic firm interaction and the resulting price series implications are less established. This paper develops a spatial economy to analyze these interactions. In the two period...

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The Importance of Being Small. Or When Countries are Areas and not Points

Tharakan, Joe; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Market size and transport costs are important ingredients of international trade. We propose to look at these issues from a different perspective. Using a Hotelling duopoly model with quadratic transport costs, we analyse the welfare effects of international trade between two countries that...

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The Implications of Space for Competition

Scotchmer, Suzanne; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Incorporating space in economic models has two important consequences. First, the hypothesis of perfect competition becomes untenable, and second, the distinction between private and public goods becomes blurred. We review arguments that lead to these conclusions and summarize recent work...

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