Do Consumers' Preferences Really Matter? - A Note on Spatial Competition with Restricted Strategies
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Keywords
duopoly; product differentiation; Hotelling-Downs; median voter; market entry;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D49 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Other
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2014-04-18 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-MIC-2014-04-18 (Microeconomics)
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