Spatial Price Competition and Market Share Among Multi-Locational Corporations

多地点企业之间的空间价格竞争和市场份额

• 批准号: 8811722
• 负责人: Eric Sheppard
• 金额: $ 11.69万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-09-15 至 1991-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8811722&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Spatial; Price; Competition; Market; Share

In recent years, considerable attention has been paid by economic geographers and spatial economists to the operation of spatial markets. Most of our understandings of spatial competition assume independent entrepreneurs rather than franchises of larger corporations. Study of the behavior of multi-locational companies, which must simultaneously develop strategies at both national and regional or local levels, can provide new insight into some of the more significant yet neglected aspects of spatial competition. Such work will ultimately make possible the development of theory which is no longer restricted to the analysis of space economies under conditions of perfect or near perfect competition. Specifically, Dr. Sheppard examines the relationships between selected processes of macro-level corporate strategy and micro-level behavior of the firm in the context of spatial competition in multi-location corporations, typified by the gasoline distribution and retailing industry. Separating supply side issues of distribution from demand issues of consumer behavior, he will develop mathematical models of these relationships to provide a basis for simulation routines. The simulations will in turn be used to examine realistic situations. This examination of spatial price competition and market share amongst multi-locational corporations has the potential to make major contributions to our understanding of the spatial dynamics of economic activities and to the development of theory in economic geography that incorporates the institutional context of economic relations and applies to realistic situations. It will provide a foundation in the field of economic geography for the capability of theoretically informed international comparative analysis.

近年来，空间市场的运行受到了经济地理学家和空间经济学家的广泛关注。我们对空间竞争的大多数理解都假设独立的企业家，而不是大公司的特许经营权。对必须同时在国家和区域或地方层面制定战略的多地点公司的行为进行研究，可以为空间竞争中一些更重要但被忽视的方面提供新的见解。这种工作最终将使理论的发展不再局限于分析完全或接近完全竞争条件下的空间经济成为可能。具体而言，Sheppard博士研究了在多地点企业空间竞争背景下，宏观层面企业战略的选择过程与企业微观层面行为之间的关系，以汽油分销和零售业为典型。将分配的供给侧问题与消费者行为的需求问题分开，他将开发这些关系的数学模型，为模拟例程提供基础。这些模拟结果将被用来检验现实情况。这种对多地点公司之间的空间价格竞争和市场份额的研究有可能对我们理解经济活动的空间动态以及经济地理学理论的发展做出重大贡献，这些理论结合了经济关系的制度背景并适用于现实情况。它将为在经济地理学领域进行理论基础的国际比较分析能力提供基础。