Economy of specialization and diseconomy of externalities

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-261

  Chu, C Y Cyrus ^a,b   Wang, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

D6; Division of labor; Externalities; H0; H2; Non convexity; Specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040687075     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00024-3     Document Type: Article

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