Competition in Multi-characteristics Spaces: Hotelling Was Almost Right

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 76-102

  Irmen, Andreas ^a   Thisse, Jacques François ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Product positioning; multi characterisitcs space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002581531     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.1997.2348     Document Type: Article

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