Taste heterogeneity and the scale of production: Fragmentation, unification, and segmentation

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-160

  Murata, Yasusada ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choice of technology; Coexistence of small scale and mass production technologies; Discrete choice theory of product differentiation; Economic geography; Scale of production; Taste heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447105698     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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