Recent insights in Huff-like competitive facility location and design

Recently, several articles appeared on the location–design problem that firms face when entering a competing market. All use a Huff-like attraction model. We discuss the formulation of the base model, the different settings studied in the papers and summarise their findings.

► Generates a general notation of the model used by all three reviewed papers.
► Details in what sense the investigated setting in the papers differ.
► Points out the lack of citation in one of the papers to the results published in the other.
► Summarises the results of the papers.
► Embeds the result in recent papers on reaction of competitors on their attractiveness when a firm enters a market.