Asymmetric entrant location with a discrete consumer distribution: Spatial price discrimination versus mill pricing

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-148

  Braid, Ralph M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; LOCATION THEORY; MODEL;

EID: 0032998746     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9787.00126     Document Type: Article

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