Hotelling's "ice cream dealers" with elastic demand

• This article reconsiders the Hotelling duopoly model of 1929, but under elastic demand, more precisely a linear demand function. The equilibrium state for identical firms is fully described, and the intervals of different regimes: independent monopolies, genuine duopoly competition, and price cutting wars, are specified in terms of one single compound parameter (maximum price, minus marginal production cost, divided by transportation cost).

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)

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Nationalekonomi

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