Transportation Rates and Plant Location in Oligopolistic Competition with Sequential Entry

Guang-Meei Doris Cheng and Yeung-Nan Shieh ()

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 1995, vol. 11, issue 1, 65-75

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of quantity-discounted transportation rates on location patterns of oligopolistic competition with sequential entry. When transportation rates are constant, Hwang and Mai (1990) show that the entrant locate at the same point as the existing firms if the production function exhibits constant returns to scale. The entrant will locate farther away from (closer to) the market than the existing firms do if the production function exhibits increasing (decreasing) returns to scale. This paper shows that Hwang and Mai's results need not hold when transportation rates are a function of quantity shipped and distance traveled. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1995
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