March 22, 2005

Hotelling Behavior: Chocolate On Michigan Avenue

Lynne Kiesling One of the most fascinating phenomena to be analyzed using industrial organization is the clustering of competing retailers. Ask yourself: why do Oriental rug stores all cluster in the same block? And what about car dealers? Don’t you want to be farther away from your competitors? Enter Harold Hotelling, who developed a simple …

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