ASSET FIXITY, ASSET SPECIFICITY AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC CHANGE: HYPOTHESIS AND IMPLICATIONS

William Ward and James C. Hite

No 18807, Working Papers from Clemson University, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Abstract: That asset specificity and asset fixity are impediments to economic adjustment is well understood in the literatures of industrial organization and agricultural economics. In this paper, we show that spatial factors can plausible be expected to be arguments in functions that define asset fixity and specificity and, hence, asset fixity may be systematically related to space. The implications with regard to differences across space in rates of adjustment to market signals suggest that the short run is longer in remote than in less remote places, which may prove useful in explaining the behavior of a spatial economic system during times of rapid technological change.

Keywords: Industrial; Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.18807

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