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Cournot competition and location choice with wage bargaining

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  • Qiang Wang

    (College of Economics and Management,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

  • Qi Chen

    (College of Economics and Management,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Abstract

Equilibrium locations are analyzed in location-quantity games, in which firms acquire labor inputs through bilateral monopoly relations with independent labor union. We find that the pattern of locations varies as the transport rate increase in a linear city. In a circular city, firms locate equidistant form each other.

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  • Qiang Wang & Qi Chen, 2008. "Cournot competition and location choice with wage bargaining," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 12(22), pages 1-5.
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