Spatial Search: Structure, Complexity, and Implications (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Some Important Relationships.- 1.2 Other Concepts of Search.- 1.3 Basic Elements of the Analysis.- 1.4 Aim and Structure of the Book.- 2 Economic Search Theory.- 2.1 Basic Search Models.- 2.1.1 The Sequential Search Strategy.- 2.1.2 The FSS-Search Strategy.- 2.1.3 Sequential and FSS-Strategy Compared.- 2.2 Extensions of the Basic Search Models.- 2.2.1 McKenna's General Search Model: Discounting, Utility, and Search Intensity.- 2.2.2 Other Extensions of the Standard Economic Search Model.- 2.3 Search Based Markets.- 2.4 Summary.- 3 Prerequisites: Graphs, Routes, and Computational Complexity.- 3.1 Graphs.- 3.2 Routes.- 3.3 Computational Complexity.- 3.3.1 Types of Problems.- 3.3.2 The Traveling Salesman Problem.- 3.4 Summary.- 4 The General Spatial Search Problem.- 4.1 Definition of the Spatial Search Problem.- 4.1.1 Basic Assumptions.- 4.1.2 An Algorithm for Solving the General Spatial Search Problem.- 4.1.3 An Illustrating Example.- 4.2 The Complexity of the General Spatial Search Problem.- 4.3 Incomplete Routes.- 4.4 The Relevant Alternatives in a Spatial Search Problem.- 4.5 Parameter Changes in the Search Problem.- 4.5.1 Shifting and Scaling the Search Problem.- 4.5.2 Changes in the Structure of the Search Problem: Stopping Effects vs. Routing Effects.- 4.6 The Spatial Search Model and Economic Search Theory.- 4.7 Summary.- 5 Tractable Spatial Search Problems.- 5.1 Simplified Spatial Structures.- 5.1.1 Linear Space.- 5.1.2 Simplified Structures in Non-Linear Space.- 5.2 Heuristics and Approximations.- 5.2.1 General Aspects of Spatial Search Heuristics.- 5.2.2 Heuristics for the General Spatial Search Problem.- 5.3 Summary.- 6 The Implication of Spatial Search for Market Areas and Firm Location.- 6.1 Standard Location and Spatial Price Theory.- 6.2 Search Based Location and Spatial Price Structures.- 6.2.1 Consumer not Returning Home.- 6.2.2 Consumer Returning Home.- 6.3 Fette's Law of Markets and Search.- 6.4 Summary.- 7 Spatial Search and Agglomeration.- 7.1 Hotelling's Principle of Minimum Differentiation.- 7.2 Spatial Search and Agglomeration.- 7.3 Summary.- 8 Spatial Search and Spatial Interaction Models.- 8.1 The Gravity Model.- 8.2 The Intervening Opportunities Model.- 8.3 Discrete Choice Models.- 8.4 Search, Spatial Interaction, Discrete Choice.- 8.5 Notes on the Econometrics of Spatial Search.- 8.6 Summary.- 9 Conclusions and Future Research.- References.