Add a secondindustryto Exercise 2 from Chapter 6. Thisindustry produces a good for export at a price

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Add a secondindustryto Exercise 2 from Chapter 6.

Thisindustry produces a good for export at a price of $20 per unit at the point of export, and transportation costs are $1 per mile per unit of output. Other costs (labor and capital) are $10 per unit. Output is 75 units per acre.

a. Find the bid-rent function for this industry that corresponds to zero economic profits.

b. Where do the first (from Exercise 2 in Chapter 6) and the second industries locate in the city?

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Urban Economics And Real Estate: Theory And Policy

ISBN: 9781621577706

2nd Edition

Authors: John F. McDonald, Daniel P. McMillen

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