In this article, we analyze competition for agricultural land as an important, scarce and immobile input. The cost of cultivating a parcel of land depends strongly on the distance from the farmer to the plot, leading to spatially small land markets. To investigate this issue, we are able to use...

This paper considers the effect of the internalization of the costs of point source pollution and congestion by Cournot duopolists in a linear city. The central agglomeration of Cournot duopolists in a linear city is well known. However, this paper shows that even under the condition in which...

In this paper, I study the competition of platforms which offer differentiated products à la Hotelling in the presence of network effects when the location choices are endogenous. I mainly find that undermill pricing policy and unbalanced competition, a tendency of agglomeration emerges in...

Hotelling's model, commonly referred to as the "linear city" model, is perhaps the most widely-used model of competition in differentiated products. However, pure-strategy Nash equilibria in prices do not exist unless the firms are located either sufficiently far apart from each other or at the...

We consider a model where for-profit providers compete in quality in a price-regulated market that has been opened to competition, and where the incumbent is located at the center of the market, facing high costs of relocation. The model is relevant in markets such as public health care,...

In this paper, I assume the existence of distribution of urbanamenities having its maximum at the city center. These amenities are viewed as a surrogate for all kinds of outside opportunities taht consumers encounter within urban areas. Using the Hotelling model, I study the impact of these...