TY - JOUR
AU - Copes, Parzival
AB -  In a seminal article on the subject of spatial distribution of firms, Hotelling [ll]demonstrated that duopolists tend to locate at the center of a market, with adverse implications for social welfare. Hotelling’s analysis has since been amplified, modified, and extended by a number of other economists (for example, Lerner and Singer [12]; Smithies [17]; Chamberlin [l]; Lewis [13]; Losch [14]; Mills and Lav [16]; Eaton and Lipsey [7,8]; Devletoglou [3]; Greenhut [9]; Hartwick and Hartwick [lo];Eaton [4,5,6];and Love11 [15]). They observed centrifugal tendencies in spatial distribution when the number of firms exceeded two. Their conclusions further indicated that the forces of dispersion are stronger, the higher the transportation costs, the higher the price elasticity of demand, the less the uncertainty regarding competitors’ reactions, and the more equal the production costs in different locations. This paper introduces a new dimension to the analysis of producer dispersion by examining the influence of product differentiation on geographical dispersion-a factor largely ignored in the literature. Greenhut 19, p. 1801, makes brief reference, in a restricted context, to the impact of product differentiation on producer dispersion. Copes [2, Chap. 2 describes intuitively the competitive 1 centralization of plants producing differentiated products. We attempt 
TI - PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND CENTRALIZATION OF PRODUCTION *
JF - Journal of Regional Science
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9787.1978.tb00553.x
DA - 1978-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/product-differentiation-and-centralization-of-production-us1Srzg7gl
SP - 323
VL - 18
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -