Learning-by-Doing and the Development of Industrial Districts

Marshallian districts are locales that accomodate a large number of small firms producing similar goods to be exported and benefit from the accumulation of know-how associated with workers residing there. We study the making of such districts by assuming that the cost function of a firm is a decreasing function of the total output produced in the [ast by the firms established in the locale.

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Soubeyran, A. ; Thisse, J.-F.
Institutions:	Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
Subject:	GEOGRAPHY \| LEARNING \| INDUSTRIAL AREAS

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Series:	G.R.E.Q.A.M..
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	20 pages
Classification:	O14 - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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