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Factor market oligopsony and the location decision of free entry oligopoly

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  • Chiung-I Hwang

    (Department of Economics, San Jose State University)

  • Yeung-Nan Shieh

    (Department of Economics, San Jose State University)

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This paper examines the impact of oligopsony power on the location decision of undifferentiated oligopolistic firms with free entry. In the case where the distance of an oligopolistic firm from the output market is held constant, it shows that the optimum location moves away from the oligopsonistic input market if the demand function and the labor supply function are linear. In the case where the distance of an oligopolistic firm from the output market is a decision variable, it shows that the optimum location may not move toward the output market as demand increases if the demand function is convex. These results are significantly different from the conventional results based on the perfectly competitive factor market. It indicates that the presence of oligopsony power has important influence on the location decision of oligopolistic firms.

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  • Chiung-I Hwang & Yeung-Nan Shieh, 2007. "Factor market oligopsony and the location decision of free entry oligopoly," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 18(6), pages 1-7.
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    1. Yeung-Nan Shieh, 2013. "Effects of ad-valorem taxes on location decision under free entry Cournot oligopoly," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, vol. 2(1), pages 5-12.

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    Keywords

    Free entry oligopoly;

    JEL classification:

    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location
    • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design

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