Cost inefficiency and Optimal Market Structure in Spatial Cournot Discrimination

Ricardo Biscaia and Paula Sarmento (sarmento@fep.up.pt)
Additional contact information
Paula Sarmento: FEP - Faculdade de Economia do Porto

FEP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto

Abstract: This paper analyzes the location patterns of firms in Cournot spatial discrimination setting. The innovation step is that firms are allowed to have different marginal costs of the production. When analyzing the two-stage location-quantity game, we conclude that firms choose the central agglomeration outcome whatever the marginal cost difference between them. When maximizing social welfare, the social planner chooses the central location for both firms as well if the marginal cost differences are not too big. When allowed to decide if the inefficient firm should be in the market or not, the social planner removes the inefficient firm from the market if its cost is too high.

Keywords: Spatial Competition; Cournot Discrimination; Market Structure; Cost Differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 L11 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2012-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-geo and nep-tid
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.fep.up.pt/investigacao/workingpapers/wp462.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.fep.up.pt/investigacao/workingpapers/wp462.pdf [302 Found]--> https://fep.up.pt/investigacao/workingpapers/wp462.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:por:fepwps:462

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in FEP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by (wps@fep.up.pt).