Industrial Clusters: Equilibrium, Welfare and Policy.

This paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that arise in a multi-country world in which one sector has a propensity to cluster because of increasing returns to scale. Equilibrium will generally have smaller clusters than the world welfare optimum, and possibly too many countries w...

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Main Authors: Norman, V, Venables, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004