This paper examines the impact of a specific commodity tax as a policy device on output per firm, the number of firms, total output and the location decision of undifferentiated oligopolistic firms in the WeberMoses triangle. It shows that when the distance between the plant location and the...

This paper examines the employment effect of wage discrimination in the well-known Weber-Moses triangular model. Assume that the plant location is a choice variable. It shows that the wage discrimination will change total employment of a monopsony if the supply labor curves in two separate...