Optimal product variety in a Hotelling model
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2012
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Meagher, Kieron
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Elsevier
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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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Keywords: Location; Price discrimination; Pricing; Product variety; Uncertainty
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Economics Letters
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