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Rationalizable Behavior in the Hotelling Model with Waiting Costs

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  • Joep van Sloun

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This paper revisits the Hotelling model with waiting costs Kohlberg (1983), focusing on two specific settings where pure Nash equilibria do not exist: the asymmetric model with two firms and the symmetric model with three firms. In the asymmetric two-firm model, we show that the weaker concept of point rationalizability has strong predictive power, as it selects exactly two locations for both firms. As the two firms become more similar in their efficiency in handling queues of consumers, the two point rationalizable locations converge towards the center of the line. In the symmetric three-firm model, the set of point rationalizable choices forms an interval. This interval is shrinking in the inefficiency levels of the firms in handling queues of consumers.

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  • Joep van Sloun, 2025. "Rationalizable Behavior in the Hotelling Model with Waiting Costs," Papers 2501.15545, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2501.15545
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