Location of Retail Stores in City Center and Outskirts under Spatial Price Competition: Improvements in Radial and Ring Roads

Akio Kishi, Tatsuhito Kono and Yoshitaka Nozoe
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Akio Kishi: University of Shizuoka
Yoshitaka Nozoe: East Japan Railway Company

The Review of Regional Studies, 2015, vol. 45, issue 2, 173-194

Abstract: Retail stores locate in both the center and the outskirts of most cities. Their locations can change with transportation improvements. This paper presents a spatial price competition model with central and outlying commercial areas. It illustrates the relationship between retail store location and transportation improvements. An improvement of a radial road connecting the city center and the outskirts contributes to commercial development in the central area. However, an improvement of a ring road in the outskirts does not always engender a decline in the number of stores in central commercial areas.

Keywords: retail stores location; spatial price competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L13 R12 R32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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