Hadar, Yossi; Pines, David - In: Journal of Public Economic Theory 5 (2003) 4, pp. 549-570
This study discusses the reasons for market failure and its bias in an economy with two cities and two final goods: tradeable differentiated products and non-tradeable housing. It is shown that inside the city, as in Dixit and Stiglitz (1977), diversity (number of firms) is too small. With...