External Economies of Scale and Comparative Advantage
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Keywords
external increasing returns to scale; advantage reversals; size reversals; scale-dominant economy; comparative-cost dominant economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
- F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
- F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INT-2008-03-08 (International Trade)
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