Agglomeration and comparative advantage in vertically-related firms

This paper models, in game-theoretical terms, the location of two vertically-linked monopolistic firms in a spatial economy formed by a large, high labor cost country and a relatively small, low labor cost country. It is found that the decrease in transport costs shifts firms towards the low product...

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Main Author: Pontes, José Pedro (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2638
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/2638