Abstract:Location theory of the firm in a simple context was pioneered by Weber, whose analysis involved a firm with fixed coefficient technology attempting to determine the profit maximizing location with respect to input sources and market location. This paper uses methods presented by Khalili et al. It is a comparative static analysis of the location problem of a profit maximizing firm in which the effect of several changes in the exogenous variables on the location decision of the firm with and without prior locati… Show more
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