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Hotelling's spatial competition as a model of sales

Economics LettersPublished 1 January 1982
Esther Gal‐Or
Citations37
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.76
SNIP0.98

Abstract

Hotelling's spatial competition model is used to explain the existence of sales. It is shown that (1) an equilibrium in randomized strategies exists when a pure strategy equilibrium fails to exist, (2) with more dissimilarity among brands prices are chosen from a wider interval.

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