Spatial competition with endogenous location choices: An application to discount retailing

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-35

  Zhu, Ting ^a,b   Singh, Vishal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discount stores; Discrete games; Entry; Location choice; Retail competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649117438     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-008-9048-6     Document Type: Article

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