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Searching for the Concentration-Price Effect in the German Movie Theater Industry

Böhme, Enrico; Müller, Christopher - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 4, pp. 479-493

The empirical relationship between market concentration and prices has been well established for a long time and for …. Then we apply the estimated model to simulate monopoly prices on local markets with two or more operators and compare them … to the prices actually observed in these markets. We find no significant difference in admission prices, which puts our …

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More competitive than you think? Pricing and location of processing firms in agricultural markets

Graubner, Marten; Sexton, Richard J. - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 105 (2023) 3, pp. 784-808

The spatial distribution of production is a defining characteristic of agriculture, and the location choice in geographic space and the spatial pricing policies adopted by agricultural processing/packing firms are key determinants of the competitiveness and efficiency of agricultural product...

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A line in space: Pricing, location, and market power in agricultural product markets

Graubner, Marten; Salhofer, Klaus; Tribl, Christoph - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 13 (2021), pp. 85-107

Agricultural economists have a long history of emphasizing and analyzing the spatial dimension of agricultural and food markets. Despite a rich body of literature and important contributions to agricultural and spatial economics, one aspect is frequently disregarded: the oligopsonistic nature of...

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Firm Location, Trade and Economic Integration

Andaluz, Joaquín; Gil, Agustín - In: Journal of Economic Integration 17 (2002), pp. 671-686

transport costs (different levels of development) affects firms’ decisions on location and prices. Considering the situation … non-neighbouring extremes, which leads to higher prices and profits. Therefore, the firm located in the more developed …

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Location competition in an Alonso–Mills–Muth city

Takahashi, Takaaki - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 82-93

The purpose of this paper is to explain the decentralization process of an urban spatial structure in terms of the strategic interactions between firms. For that purpose, we expand the Hotelling model of a linear city to incorporate two aspects of the urban spatial structure, namely, the...

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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

The purpose of this paper is to show that taste heterogeneity and imperfect information on the characteristics of 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...

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Location of firms and outsourcing

Colombo, Stefano; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Games 14 (2023) 6, pp. 1-20

We analyze the location of final goods producers under spatial competition with strategic input price determination by firm-specific input suppliers when the final goods producers undertake complete outsourcing or bi-sourcing. Under complete outsourcing, the final goods producers locate closer...

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research notes: An application of the Beckmann-Ingene argument to a monopsonist's spatial pricing problem

Shieh, Yeung-Nan - In: Papers in Regional Science 78 (1999) 3, pp. 319-321

The purpose of this note is to show that an analogue of the Beckmann-Ingene proposition on price policies of a spatial monopolist applies to a properly formulated profit maximization problem for a spatial monopsonist. The proof of this fact uses the same linear transformation employed in the...

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A public firm in a model of spatial duopoly with price discrimination

Beladi, Hamid; Chakrabarti, Avik; Marjit, Sugata - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 1, pp. 79-81

We visit the role of privatization in the location decision of firms in an industry where no firm can produce all varieties demanded. We demonstrate that the Nash equilibrium locations are socially optimal, in the presence of a publicly owned firm, notwithstanding the degree of privatization.

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Welfare properties of strategic R&D investments in Hotelling models

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 465-468

In linear-city models, if firms are allowed (not allowed) to locate outside the linear city, they engage in excessive (insufficient) R&D investments from the normative viewpoint. This implies that the feasible set of locations drastically affects their investments.

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