Hotelling meets Holmes : the importance of returns to product differentiation and distribution economies for the firm's optimal location choice
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Location choice;JEL classification:
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
- R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2014-11-07 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2014-11-07 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-GEO-2014-11-07 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-IND-2014-11-07 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-URE-2014-11-07 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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