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Contestable monopolistic competition : an application of contestability to spatial competition

Brunekreeft, Gert - 1997

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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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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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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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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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Perfect Competition, Spatial Competition, and Tax Incidence in the Retail Gasoline Market

Alm, James; Sennoga, Edward; Skidmore, Mark - Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater - 2005

incidence of state gasoline excise taxes. Standard economic theory predicts full shifting of the excise tax to consumers when …

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Outsourcing and Trade in a Spatial World

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2004

This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model à la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss the trade-off between transport cost related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large economy. The model gives a rich picture of possible...

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Multistrategic Spatial Competition in Banking

Kim, Moshe; Lozano-Vivas, Ana; Morales, Antonio - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 3, pp. 351-366

This paper presents a model whereby banking firms use various strategies (price and non-price) simultaneously in a monopolistically competitive model of spatial competition when the various strategies are used across different markets in the presence of a multioutput technology. The theoretical...

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Locational choice and price competition: some empirical results for the austrian retail gasoline market

Clemenz, Gerhard; Gugler, Klaus - In: Empirical Economics 31 (2006) 2, pp. 291-312

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