Capacity utilisation and excess capacity: Theory, evidence, and policy

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-87

  Driver, Ciaran ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0034110228     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007864132477     Document Type: Article

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