Economies of scale and the volume of intra-industry trade

Economics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 127-132

  Schmitt, Nicolas ^a   Yu, Zhihao ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

F10; F12; Intra industry trade; Monopolistic competition; Scale economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035623423     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00519-5     Document Type: Article

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