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NEW COMPETITION IN SHOPPING‐CENTER HIERARCHIES: AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATIONS *
Author(s) -
West Douglas S.,
Ryan David L.,
Hohenbalken Balder
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01086.x
Subject(s) - hierarchy , competition (biology) , center (category theory) , population , logit , pairwise comparison , business , face (sociological concept) , computer science , industrial organization , econometrics , economics , artificial intelligence , demography , ecology , chemistry , sociology , market economy , biology , crystallography , social science
. Within the framework of an existing hierarchy of shopping centers, Voronoi diagrams at each level of the hierarchy are used to define infringement on existing centers by new entrants. We distinguish four intensities of infringement—that is, four categorizations of when existing centers face new competition—and label shopping centers accordingly. Our aim is to determine empirically which type of new competition is best explained by various attributes of the incumbent centers. To accomplish this, logit analysis is used to relate the above labels to market‐area population, store turnover, age, and hierarchical level of each shopping center in Edmonton, Alberta.