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Comment on "A note on the Hotelling principle of minimum differentiation: Imitation and crowd"

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We argue that the minimum differentiation firm location equilibrium and the pure strategy pricing equilibrium in Di Cintio's [Di Cintio, M., 2007. A note on the Hotelling principle of minimum differentiation: Imitation and crowd. Research in Economics 61 (3), 122-129] "Note" need not exist under the conditions claimed.

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  • Ahlin, Christian, 2008. "Comment on "A note on the Hotelling principle of minimum differentiation: Imitation and crowd"," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 62(1), pages 55-56, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reecon:v:62:y:2008:i:1:p:55-56
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