Competition in multi-characteristics spaces: Hotelling was almost right

DOI10.1006/jeth.1997.2348zbMath0895.90031OpenAlexW2067930931MaRDI QIDQ1381968

Andreas Irmen, Jacques-François Thisse

Publication date: 4 May 1998

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.hec.unil.ch/deep/publications/cahiers/series

zbMATH Keywords

product differentiationproduct positioningmulti-characteristics space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24) Spatial models in sociology (91D25)

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