First-mover disadvantages with idiosyncratic consumer tastes along unobservable characteristics
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A study examines the impact of heterogeneity of consumers on companies, which enter into an urban market for the first time. The firms profitability in such markets is discussed.
Publication Name: Regional Science & Urban Economics
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0166-0462
Year: 2006
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Productivity and the geographic concentration of industry: the role of plant scale
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Development of model to study relation between effects of sizes of establishments in localities on their profitability is described.
Publication Name: Regional Science & Urban Economics
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0166-0462
Year: 2006
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Hedonism vs. nihilism: no arbitrage and tests of urban economic models
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A study uses urban economic models such as a hedonic housing model, to know consumer behavior in such markets.
Publication Name: Regional Science & Urban Economics
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0166-0462
Year: 2006
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