Retail sprawl and multi-store firms: An analysis of location choice by retail chains

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 277-286

  Karamychev, Vladimir ^a   van Reeven, Peran ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Horizontal differentiation; Location choice; Multi store competition; Random utility

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); LOCATION DECISION; MODELING; RETAILING; URBAN AREA;

EID: 61349134757     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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