Coalition building in a spatial economy

Joachim Henkel (), Konrad O. Stahl and Uwe Walz ()

No 117, Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge from University of Tübingen, School of Business and Economics

Abstract: We analyze the possibility and consequences of coalition-formation amongst suppliers of retail services. We first provide a framework in which producers of Substitutes have an incentive to Cluster in market places in order to attract consumers dispersed in space. Owing to spatial externalities, the resulting spatial equilibrium can be welfare suboptimal. We characterize regimes in which we find too little and those in which there is too much agglomeration of firms. We analyze the role of coalitions of firms (e.g. initiated by a land developer) in this framework and show that such coalitions can overcome the suboptimality of the decentralized spatial allocation.

Keywords: endogenous agglomerations; monopolistic competition; coalition building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 L13 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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