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Equilibrium Nonexistence in Spatial Competition with Quadratic Transportation Costs

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  • Arguedas, Carmen

    (Departamento de Análisis Económico (Teoría e Historia Económica). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.)

  • Hamoudi, Hamid

    (Departamento de Economía Aplicada y Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

  • Saez, Manuel

    (Departamento de Economía, Universidad Europea de Madrid)

Abstract

Under quadratic transportation costs, the existence of the sequential first-locate-thenprice equilibrium in spatial competition is well known in the literature. In this paper, we find that the equilibrium may fail to exist under certain restrictions with respect to the location of firms and consumers in the market. This result is valid for both the linear and the circular models

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  • Arguedas, Carmen & Hamoudi, Hamid & Saez, Manuel, 2007. "Equilibrium Nonexistence in Spatial Competition with Quadratic Transportation Costs," Working Papers in Economic Theory 2007/01, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History).
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    Keywords

    Product differentiation; circular model; linear model; quadratic transportation costs; sequential equilibrium;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection

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