Localized competition and the aggregation of plant-level increasing returns: Blast furnaces, 1929-1935

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-266

  Bertin, Amy L ^a   Bresnahan, Timothy F ^b   Raff, Daniel M G ^c  

^a Economics Resource Group

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLAST FURNACE; ECONOMIC AGGREGATION; GREAT DEPRESSION; HISTORICAL STUDY; INCREASING RETURNS; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

USA;

EID: 0029822551     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/262024     Document Type: Review

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