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Isolation or joining a mall? On the location choice of competing shops

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  • Non, Marielle

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I study the location choice of competing shops. A shop can either be isolated or join a mall. A fraction of consumers is uninformed about prices and incurs costs to travel between market places and to enter a shop. The equilibrium mall size is computed for several parameter values, showing that mall and isolated shops can coexist. Several effects play a role. Mall shops attract more consumers, but isolated shops set a higher maximum price. Moreover, numerical evaluations show that an increase in mall size decreases the average price level and increases the participation level of uninformed consumers.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 20044.

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Date of creation: 15 Jan 2010
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Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:20044

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Keywords: location choice; travel costs; pricing; consumer search;

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