%0 Journal Article %T Monopolistic Product Line Competition with <i>Ex Post</i> Consumer Heterogeneity %A Nikolaos Georgantz¨ªs %A Aurora Garc¨ªa-Gallego %J Theoretical Economics Letters %P 155-165 %@ 2162-2086 %D 2014 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/tel.2014.42023 %X
We model monopolistic competition in product lines, assuming that consumer heterogeneity is the result rather than the cause of product variety. Our results contradict some well-known policy implications yielded by the standard monopolistic competition framework.
%K Consumer Heterogeneity %K Product Diversity %K Monopolistic Competition %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=43741