The objective of facility location models is to maximize the profit or minimize the cost of a
company that wishes to expand or enter the market. The market share captured by facilities …

This critical review focuses on the development of spatial competition models à la Hotelling
in which the location choice of firms plays a major role. We start by quantifying the research …

Lancasterian models of product differentiation typically assume a one-dimensional
characteristics space. We show that standard results on prices and locations no longer hold …

We analyze the canonical location-then-price duopoly game with general log-concave
consumer densities. A unique pure-strategy equilibrium to the two-stage game exists if the …

We present a survey of recent developments in the field of sequential competitive location
problems, including the closely related class of voting location problems, ie problems of …

Thema des Buches sind grundlegende Wettbewerbsstrategien von Unternehmen zur
Kostenführerschaft und zur Produktdifferenzierung. Dazu gehören (aus kurzfristiger Sicht) …

This paper extends the interval Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs to the n‐player
case. For a large set of locations including potential equilibrium configurations, we show for …

Customers' preferences for prefabricated building or conventional cast-in-situ building
directly affect the decision-making process for strategic selection of building developers …

This paper examines the product positioning decisions of firms that enter a market
sequentially and that have potentially different cost structures. It shows that if the first mover …

This chapter first provides a review of the foundations of competitive location models. It then
traces subsequent developments through time under special consideration of customer …