We consider spatial competition when consumers are arbitrarily distributed on a compact metric space. Retailers can choose one of finitely many locations in this space. We focus on symmetric mixed equilibria which exist for any number of retailers. We prove that the distribution of retailers tends to agree with the distribution of the consumers when the number of competitors is large enough. The results are shown to be robust to the introduction of (1) randomness in the number of retailers and (2) different ability of the retailers to attract consumers.

Large Spatial Competition / Núñez, Matías; Scarsini, Marco. - (2017), pp. 225-246. [10.1007/978-3-319-52654-6_10]

Large Spatial Competition

SCARSINI, MARCO
2017

Abstract

We consider spatial competition when consumers are arbitrarily distributed on a compact metric space. Retailers can choose one of finitely many locations in this space. We focus on symmetric mixed equilibria which exist for any number of retailers. We prove that the distribution of retailers tends to agree with the distribution of the consumers when the number of competitors is large enough. The results are shown to be robust to the introduction of (1) randomness in the number of retailers and (2) different ability of the retailers to attract consumers.
2017
978-3-319-52653-9
978-3-319-52654-6
Hotelling games. Large games. Poisson games. Valence.
Large Spatial Competition / Núñez, Matías; Scarsini, Marco. - (2017), pp. 225-246. [10.1007/978-3-319-52654-6_10]
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