Localized Competition and the Aggregation of Plant-Level Increasing Returns: Blast Furnaces, 1929-1935
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- Bertin, A.L. & Bresnahan, T.F. & Raff, D.M.G., 1993. "Localized Competition and the Aggregation of Plant Level Increasing Returns: Blast Furnaces 1929-1935," Papers 93-10a, Columbia - Graduate School of Business.
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