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detailed information on income at a regionally disaggregated level and individual data on Austrian restaurants, we demonstrate …
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detailed information on income at a regionally disaggregated level and individual data on Austrian restaurants, we demonstrate …
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detailed information on income at a regionally disaggregated level and individual data on Austrian restaurants, we demonstrate …
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This paper investigates the interaction between product heterogeneity and geographic agglomeration. Using data for nearly the entire population of U.S. hotels, we examine patterns of entry into different regions among establishments delineated by product segment. We find that to the extent that...
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,000 restaurants rated by TripAdvisor, across large UK cities. Whereas top-rated restaurants tend to locate close to other top … restaurants, bottom-rated restaurants tend to locate away from each other and closer to top ones. Our theoretical model can … reduces the spatial dispersion of both top and bottom restaurants but this reduction is larger in magnitude for top …
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We introduce non-homothetic preferences in the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition, and enquire about the effects of a change in income dispersion on the firms' optimal decisions and market equilibrium. Income dispersion, modelled as a mean preserving spread, is shown to affect only...
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In direct competition between national brands of consumer packaged goods (CPG), one brand often has a large local share advantage over the other despite that the products are similar. I present an explanation for these large and persistent advantages in the context of local competition on...
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This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the incentive of private producer and policymaker to reduce seasonality in a given market, where consumers derive different utilities from the consumption of the good in different seasons. The (seasonal) product differentiation is modelled...
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