A country or a vast region usually comprises different kinds of spatial competition, a free-entry competition, imperfective competition, and a local monopoly, in its economic system: While many firms concentrate on a place and formulate the competitive market there, a same kind firm exists on...

When a manufacturing firm projects to construct a factory, the firm searches a factory's location in large geographical area. The manufacturer does not determine immediately the factory's location site since the manufacturer could not have enough information of economic situation of possible...

Regional governments carry out a series of plans to attract firms to the area to stimulate the economic activity. The firms which are enticed to locate at the area are selected according to the characteristics of the regional economy. These firms are expected to operate the production processes...

Due to the reduction of the transportation cost, the retailers become to be able to deal with many kinds of goods and to increase the number of items stocked at the stores. Corresponding to the increase of items stocked at stores, the customers tend to increase to visit the retailer that...

This paper analyzes effects of the corporation tax rates of countries on firms' location selections using the transfer pricing system. Reduction of transportation costs makes firms' production activities expand to across international borders. This expansion incurs harsh price competition among...

It would not take a long time for a firm to determine factory's location when the firm's production activity was almost confined in a country. While, in the globalized economy a firm takes a series of steps to decide factory's location since spatial range of a firm's production activity is...