From Local to Global Competition

Simon Anderson and André de Palma ()

Virginia Economics Online Papers from University of Virginia, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper lays out and elaborates upon the properties of an extended Chamberlinian model with applications both in Industrial Organization and Economic Geography/ Urban Economics. The framework is used to explain the impact of some major changes over the last two centuries: reductions in transport costs, increased taste for variety, population growth, and use of technologies with greater returns to scale. To this end, we introduce a framework that has known models of oligopolistic competition with differentiated products as limit cases. These limit models include the circle, the logit, and the CES models. The integrative approach incorporates both localized and global competition, as well as price-sensitive individual.

Keywords: Product Differentiation; Economic Geography; Spatial Competition; Localization; Monopolistic Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 1998-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ind, nep-lab and nep-mic
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Related works:
Journal Article: From local to global competition (2000)
Working Paper: From local to global competition (1997)
Working Paper: From Local to Global Competition (1996)
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