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Necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium of the Hotelling model on a circle

Theoretical Economics 2019-10-30 v2

Abstract

We study a model of vendors competing to sell a homogeneous product to customers spread evenly along a circular city. This model is based on Hotelling's celebrated paper in 1929. Our aim in this paper is to present a necessary and sufficient condition for the equilibrium. This yields a representation for the equilibrium. To achieve this, we first formulate the model mathematically. Next, we prove that the condition holds if and only if vendors are equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11154,
  title  = {Necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium of the Hotelling model on a circle},
  author = {Satoshi Hayashi and Naoki Tsuge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11154},
  year   = {2019}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1907.06200