Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10477069 | Journal of International Economics | 2005 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
Does home market size matter for the pattern of trade? Krugman started the literature, showing it does matter. Davis overturned his result, arguing that an assumption of convenience-transport costs only for the differentiated goods-conveniently obtained the result. Here we relax another persistent assumption of convenience-two industry types differentiated only by the degree of scale economies-and find that market size reemerges as a relevant force in determining industrial structure.
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Authors
Thomas J. Holmes, John J. Stevens,