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In this book we have attempted to provide a relatively complete and up-to-date presentation of integrated production/location theory. By incorporating the firm’s input mix, output capacity, and facility location decisions within a single model we have been able to identify and illustrate how these decisions are interrelated. Analysis of these models made it clear how optimizing with respect to production variables alone—without regard to location—or optimizing with respect to location—without regard to the production variables—can lead to overall solutions that are suboptimal. In addition, the parametric analysis performed here demonstrated how changes in apparently nonspatial parameters, such as factor prices, exogenously set output levels, or spatially uniform government policies can have significant spatial effects on the firm.
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Hurter, A.P., Martinich, J.S. (1989). Conclusion. In: Facility Location and the Theory of Production. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2518-2_9
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