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Spatial Price Discrimination with Heterogeneous Firms

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In this paper we present and solve a three-stage game of entry, location, and pricing in a spatial price discrimination framework with arbitrarily many heterogeneous firms. We provide a unique characterization of all equilibria without imposing restrictions on the distribution of marginal costs.

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  • Jonathan Vogel, 2009. "Spatial Price Discrimination with Heterogeneous Firms," NBER Working Papers 14978, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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