Copyright (c) 2008 Berkeley Electronic Press All rights reserved. http://www.bepress.com/bejte Recent documents in The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics en-us Fri, 02 May 2008 02:36:57 PDT 3600 http://www.bepress.com/bejte/vol8/iss1/art14 http://www.bepress.com/bejte/vol8/iss1/art14 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:47:32 PDT Anderson, Goeree and Ramer (1997) observe that although the Uniform consumer density is almost universally assumed in Hotelling style location games, it is more realistic to assume non-uniform distributions. Using Anderson et al.'s (1997) sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique pure strategy equilibrium, we extend the list of known distributions with characterised equilibria from two (Uniform and Triangular) to seven. Our extension includes the Normal and Logistic distributions which are commonly used in empirical research. We also analyse the effects of density choice on equilibrium outcomes. Holding the mean and dispersion of consumer tastes constant, we find that the Uniform distribution inflates differentiation effects. Kieron J. Meagher D43 L13 R32