Price competition on graphs

Pim Heijnen and Adriaan Soetevent

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, vol. 146, issue C, 161-179

Abstract: This paper extends Hotelling's model of price competition with quadratic transportation costs from a line to graphs. We derive an algorithm to calculate firm-level demand for any given graph, conditional on prices and firm locations. These graph models of price competition may lead to spatial discontinuities in firm-level demand. We show that the existence result of d’Aspremont et al. (1979) does not extend to graphs that cannot be reduced to a line or circle.

Keywords: Spatial competition; Hotelling; Graphs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L10 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.12.011

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