Sixty years after the four cornerstones of retail location theory were laid down, a substantial
conceptual edifice has been constructed on top of central place theory, spatial interaction …

Although the broad social and business success of recommender systems has been
achieved across several domains, there is still a long way to go in terms of user satisfaction …

Online product ratings offer information on product quality. Scholars have recently proposed
the potential of designing multidimensional rating systems to better convey information on …

This paper summarizes and evaluates recent research on food product quality and
differentiation, both key dimensions of modern food markets. We emphasize the implications …

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 study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits
through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic …

We introduce commodity taxation into a vertical differentiation model with endogenous
product selection. We show that a uniform ad valorem tax lowers both qualities, distorts the …

We model the introduction of a minimum quality standard in a vertically differentiated
duopoly. We extend the literature by determining the standard endogenously, showing that …

Open-source software poses a serious challenge to proprietary software vendors.“Lock in
customers” seems a tempting strategy for proprietary software vendors, who attempt to lock …

It is generally accepted that location is the dominant product attribute for hotels. Accordingly,
studies on price competition have often utilized fixed geographic boundaries when defining …