Rationality, stability, and endogenous price formation in spatially interdependent markets

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 538-559

  Plummer, Paul ^a   Sheppard, Eric ^b   Haining, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Nonlinear dynamics; Rationality; Sociospatial dialectic; Spatial price competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMIC THEORY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PRICE DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84858854184     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43348     Document Type: Article

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