I analyze oligopolistic competition among three or more firms located on Hotelling's (1929) Main Srreet and show that in contrast with Hotelling's duopoly, the symmetric locational structure supports a noncooperative equilibrium in prices. However, in a two-stage game of location choice in the first stage, and price choice in the second stage, there exists no subgame-perfect equilibrium where t...

LEED®-NDTM is the latest attempt to develop more sustainable urban environs in the United States. The LEED®-NDTM program was created to provide a green rating system that would improve the quality of life for all people through the inclusion of sustainable development practices. To achieve this, a premium is placed on the locational attributes of proposed projects under the “Smart Location and ...

We tested whether a general spread model could capture macroecological patterns across all damaging invasive forest pests in the United States. We showed that a common constant dispersal kernel model, simulated from the discovery date, explained 67.94% of the variation in range size across all pests, and had 68.00% locational accuracy between predicted and observed locational distributions. Fur...

Traditionally, electric system operators have dispatched generation to minimize total production costs, assuming a fixed transmission topology within the dispatch horizon. Implementation of smart-grid systems could allow operators to co-optimize transmission topology alongside generator dispatch; the technologies that would enable such co-optimization are still regulated as part of the monopoly...

This study identifies and analyzes the effects of university/college graduates’ personal, household and employment characteristics as well as the attributes of their study, work and home locations on their college-towork, college-to-residence, and commuting distances. The results illustrate that graduates are drawn to prospering regions with ample job opportunities, supposedly in order to advan...

This paper addresses the problem of interaction between short run and long run locational signals and the coordination between generation investments and lumpy transmission investments. The short run locational signals we evaluate are sent by nodal pricing and the long run ones are sent by the average participation use-of-the-network tariff. Their joint implementation is also deemed. Numerical ...

Market power is the ability of a firm to raise the price of a product above its fair and competitive level. Locational market power is a special kind of market power that arises when locational advantage allows suppliers to act non-competitively. For example, in case of the electricity market, binding transmission constraints can prevent adequate competition. Transmission constraints can create...

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