Integration and the Competitiveness of Peripheral Industry.

This paper analyses economic integration between two economies; one central, with a large local market, and the other peripheral, with a small local market. Each economy has an imperfectly competitive manufacturing sector. Trade liberalization creates a strong incentive for the imperfectly competiti...

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Main Authors: Krugman, P, Venables, A
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: CEPR 1990