Multipurpose Shopping and the Location of Retail Firms

This paper investigates the effects of multipurpose shopping on spatial competition among retail firms. Multipurpose shopping leads to a dispersion of competing firms even in Hotelling-type scenarios. The degree of dispersion depends on individual propensities for multipurpose shopping which are determined by the relative costs, demands, and prices for various goods.

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