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Imperfect competition and congestion in the City

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  • de Palma, Andre
  • Proost, Stef

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This paper presents a spatial model to study imperfect competition with congestion. The model is used to examine the price and wage setting of subcenters of a city. Residents live in a city while they shop and work in subcentres. Each subcenter o.ers one di.erentiated product and one di.erentiated workplace. Shopping and commuting from the city to the subcenter requires the use of transport infrastructure that can be congested. We show the existence of a Nash equilibrium in prices and wages and analyse the welfare impacts of congestion charging and infrastructure policies. This paper generalises the literature on imperfect competition with di.erentiated products as well as the literature on congestion pricing with imperfect competition.
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  • de Palma, Andre & Proost, Stef, 2006. "Imperfect competition and congestion in the City," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 185-209, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:juecon:v:60:y:2006:i:2:p:185-209
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    JEL classification:

    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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