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Input specificity and location
| Resumo: | In a two-region economy, two upstream firms supply an input to two consumer goods firms. For two different location patterns (site specificity and co-location of the suppliers), the firms play a three-stage game: the input suppliers select transport rates; then they choose outputs; finally the buyers select quantities of the consumer good. It is concluded that thesitespecificity of the input leads to a high transport cost and to its specialized adaptation to the needs of the local user. |
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| Autores principais: | Pontes, José Pedro |
| Assunto: | Technological Choice Spatial Oligopoly Vertically-linked Industries |
| Ano: | 2005 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | working paper |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In a two-region economy, two upstream firms supply an input to two consumer goods firms. For two different location patterns (site specificity and co-location of the suppliers), the firms play a three-stage game: the input suppliers select transport rates; then they choose outputs; finally the buyers select quantities of the consumer good. It is concluded that thesitespecificity of the input leads to a high transport cost and to its specialized adaptation to the needs of the local user. |
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