The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure

Donald Davis ()

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Abstract: Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on "home market" effects, as in Krugman (1980, 1995). In this paper, I show that what previously was regarded as an assumption of convenience - transport costs only for the differentiated goods - matters a great deal. In a focal case in which differentiated and homogeneous goods have identical transport costs, the home market effect disappears.

Keywords: TRANSPORT; GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 O1 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1997
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