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Locating inside the Salop circle: demand rotations in a micro-founded model

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  • Bar-Isaac, Heski
  • Caruana, Guillermo
  • Cuñat, Vicente

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We present a micro-founded model of design that leads to simple demand rotations. We present simple sufficient conditions that determine when design should be extreme (fully standardized or fully tailored) or rather take intermediate positions.

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  • Bar-Isaac, Heski & Caruana, Guillermo & Cuñat, Vicente, 2011. "Locating inside the Salop circle: demand rotations in a micro-founded model," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 43163, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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