<Para ID="Par1">Dispersed consumer amenities such as shopping and cultural attractions greatly influence land use patterns and rent gradients. Lai and Tsai (J Urban Econ 63:536–543, <CitationRef CitationID="CR9">2008</CitationRef>) generalize the traditional Alonso–Mills–Muth model by introducing a monopoly vendor and show that the vendor will...</citationref></para>

This paper generalizes Hwang and Mai’s (Am Econ Rev 80:567–575, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">1990</CitationRef>) model to include labor markets and shows that their results are still valid when the difference of inverse demand slopes is large enough, while, when this difference is small, a monopoly firm always chooses the same...</citationref>

d’Aspremont (Econometrica 47:1145–1150 , <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">1979</CitationRef>) showed that a Hotelling (Econ J 39:41–57 , <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">1929</CitationRef>) duopoly model with quadratic transport costs yields maximal differentiation. However, the introducing of an online firm ensures that the duopolist will never be located at the end points of the...</citationref></citationref>

This paper provides a simple, realistic, and very slightly modified version of the production technology in Hotelling’s (Econ J 39:41–57, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">1929</CitationRef>) spatial model with linear transportation costs to overcome the nonexistence problem of equilibrium—decreasing returns to scale. It is shown that a...</citationref>

Sasaki (2002) argues that: (1) "the agglomeration effect in the (Lai and Yang 2002, (L-Y)) paper is different from the introduction of urban production in Sasaki (1998)"; and (2) the "treatment of public good in the (L-Y) paper is strange," because the public good provided by owner-residents is...

Sasaki (1998) generalizes the urban-growth-control model developed by Brueckner and Lai (1996) (B-L, hereafter) and concludes that the optimal urban-growth control is less (more) stringent than the B-L model when an agglomeration effect (public-good-provision effect) is considered. However, this...