Spatial competition and the location of firms

Location Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-71

  Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold ^a   Thisse, Jacques Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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