Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy.

We present a new model of multi-product firms (MPFs) and flexible manufacturing and explore its implications in partial and general equilibrium. International trade integration affects the scale and scope of MPFs through a competition effect and a demand effect. We demonstrate how MPFs adjust in the...

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Main Authors: Eckel, C, Neary, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2006