International trade and agglomeration: An alternative framework

Ronald Jones and Henryk Kierzkowski ()

Journal of Economics, 2005, vol. 86, issue 1, 16 pages

Abstract: The New Economic Geography, as expounded by Krugman and others, highlights the importance of greater extent of agglomeration as incomes grow in the world economy. In this paper we suggest an alternative framework in which, as incomes grow, greater degrees of economic fragmentation and dis-agglomeration are encouraged. In both approaches increasing returns to scale are crucial, but in ours these are found in service sectors that allow separate production blocks to be coordinated instead of being found within separate production blocks. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2005

Keywords: agglomeration; fragmentation; service links; production blocks; D20; F12; R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/BF03051798

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