Loschian Spatial Competition in an Emerging Retail Industry

Spatial Competition and Preemptive Entry in the Discount Retail Industry∗

Big box retail stores have large impact on local economies and receive large subsidies from local governments. Hence it is important to understand how discount retail chains choose store locations. In this paper, I study the entry decisions of those firms, examine the role of preemptive incentives, and evaluate the impact of government subsidies on those decisions. To quantify preemptive incent...

Spatial Competition in Retail Markets: Movie Theaters.∗

Retail markets are extremely important, but economists have few practical tools for analyzing the way dispersed buyers and sellers affect the properties of markets. In this paper, I develop an econometric model of retail demand, a model in which products are location specific and consumers have preferences over both geographic and other product characteristics. I show how to incorporate data on...

Retail Policies and Competition in the Gasoline Industry

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Revenue management and seller pricing decisions in retail industry: An agent-based model

Spatial Competition in the Retail Gasoline Market: An Equilibrium Approach Using SAR Models∗

This paper investigates the nature of competition in the retail gasoline market using a two year panel data of weekly prices for gas stations in San Diego county. The primary dimension of product differentiation in the retail gasoline market is spatial in the sense that a gas station’s market power depends on the locations of all other gas stations. In contrast to previous empirical studies, I ...