Optimal product variety in a Hotelling model

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2012
Volume: 117
Issue: 1
Pages: 71-73

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Consider the Hotelling linear spatial duopoly with firm uncertainty over the consumer mean. As uncertainty about the mean grows relative to the dispersion of consumers, competitive locations become socially optimal. A limit result for discontinuous, log-concave densities is also established.

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:117:y:2012:i:1:p:71-73
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-26