MORE ON HOTELLING STABILITY IN COMPETITION

被引:51
作者
KATS, A
机构
[1] Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg
关键词
HOTELLING; PURE STRATEGIES; EQUILIBRIA; CIRCLE;
D O I
10.1016/0167-7187(94)00445-8
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
It is well known that Hotelling's model of spatial competition has no location-price equilibrium in pure strategies. The present paper studies that model where the linear space is replaced by a one-dimensional bounded space without a boundary, i.e. a circle. It is shown that the modified model does have a subgame perfect equilibrium in pure strategies and that the 'equal distance' location pattern is an equilibrium.
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页码:89 / 93
页数:5
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