Research Papers on
Differentiated Products

and Location Theory

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  • Competitive Positioning with Non-Uniform Preferences, by Asim Ansari, Nicholas Economides, and Avijit Ghosh, Marketing Science, vol. 13, no. 3, (Summer 1994), pp. 248-273. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

  • Differentiated Public Goods: Privatization and Optimality, (1993), by Nicholas Economides and Susan Rose-Ackerman, in Does Economic Space Matter? Essays in Honour of Melvin L. Greenhut, edited by H. Ohta & J.-F. Thisse. St. Martin's Press. New York: 1993. [Abstract] [Acrobat ~166Kb]

  • Does it Pay to be First? Sequential Locational Choice and Foreclosure, by Nicholas Economides, Jamie Howell and Sergio Meza, [Acrobat ~201Kb]
  • Do Increases in Preference Diversity (Across Countries) Induce Increases in Trade? An Affirmative Example, by Nicholas Economides, Journal of International Economics, vol. 17 (1984), pp. 375-381. [Acrobat]

  • Existence of Equilibrium in Price-Quality Competition, by Nicholas Economides, Greek Economic Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (1985), pp. 179-186.
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  • Hotelling's 'Main Street' With More Than Two Competitors, by Nicholas Economides, Journal of Regional Science, vol. 33, no. 3 (1993), pp. 303-319. [Abstract] [Acrobat]
  • The Max-Min-Min Principle of Product Differentiation, by Asim Ansari, Nicholas Economides, and Joel Steckel, Journal of Regional Science vol. 38 (1998), pp. 207-230 [Abstract] [Acrobat ~299Kb]

  • Minimal and Maximal Product Differentiation in Hotelling's Duopoly, by Nicholas Economides, Economics Letters, vol. 21 (1986), pp. 67-71. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

  • Nash Equilibrium Existence in Duopoly with Products Defined by Two Characteristics, by Nicholas Economides, Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 17, no. 3 (1986), pp. 431-439. [Abstract]
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  • Oligopoly in Markets for Products Differentiated by their Characteristics, by Nicholas Economides, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1981.

  • On Nash Equilibrium Existence and Optimality in Oligopolistic Competition in Prices and Varieties,by Nicholas Economides, Greek Economic Review, vol. 9, no. 2 (1987), pp. 198-209. [Acrobat]

  • The Political Economy of Branching Restrictions and Deposit Insurance: A Model of Monopolistic Competition of Small and Large Banks, by Nicholas Economides, R. Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia, Journal of Law and Economics vol. XXXIX (October 1996), pp. 667-704. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

  • The Principle of Minimum Differentiation Revisited, by Nicholas Economides, European Economic Review, vol. 24, (1984), pp. 345-368. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

  • Quality Variations in the Circular Model of Differentiated Products, by Nicholas Economides, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 23, no. 2 (1993), pp. 235-257. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

  • Quality Variations and Maximal Product Differentiation, by Nicholas Economides, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 19, (1989), pp. 21-29. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

  • Symmetric Equilibrium Existence and Optimality in Differentiated Products Markets, by Nicholas Economides, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 47, no.1 (1989), pp. 178-194. [Abstract] [Acrobat]

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