Quinzii, Martine; Thisse, Jacques-Francois - In: Econometrica 58 (1990) 5, pp. 1101-19
A model of consumer multipurpose shopping is used for studying the optimality of central places. There are two different commodities sold by two different types of firms. The shopping frequencies are exogenously given and different for the two commodities. Consumers can group their purchases of...