Start-up costs and pecuniary externalities as barriers to economic development

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-59

  Ciccone, Antonio ^a   Matsuyama, Kiminori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development traps; Increasing returns due to specialization; Monopolistic competition; Roundabout production; The Hicks Allen complementarity

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT CONSTRAINT; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MODELLING APPROACH; SPECIALISATION; START UP COSTS; UNDERDEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0030463602     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(95)00052-6     Document Type: Article

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