The Geography of Competition Firms, Prices, and Localization /

• Main Author: Miron, John R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Economic geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Economic theory.; Industrial organization.; Economic policy.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Economic Policy.; Economic Geography.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm’s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When a...