Abstract
AbstractThis paper introduces strategic delegation into the traditional model of spatial price discrimination. We examine cases of both simultaneous and sequential location and find that delegating location choices to managers causes firms to move towards each other. This movement typically reduces social welfare. While exceptions exist for high cost convexity and for some cases of elastic demand, this reduction reverses the increase in welfare associated with delegation in common quantity games outside the spatial context.
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