Puga, D and Venables, Tony (1995) Preferential trading arrangements and industrial location. CEPR Discussion Paper (1309). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.
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This paper considers the location effects of geographically-discriminatory trade policy. A preferential move towards a customs union attracts industry to the integrating countries. When internal barriers fall below some critical level, input-output links between imperfectly competitive firms lead some customs union countries to gain industry at the expense of others. Closer integration can bring converging industrial development to the union. A hub-and-spoke arrangement favours location in the hub, with better reciprocal access to spoke nations than to each other. Further liberalization induces agglomeration in the hub and may trigger disparities between the spokes.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dp_papers.htm |
| Additional Information: | © 1995 The Author |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F15 - Economic Integration R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2146 |
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