General equilibria in large economies with endogenous structure of division of labor

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-256

  Sun, Guang Zhen ^a,b   Yang, Xiaokai ^a   Zhou, Lin ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer producer; General equilibrium; Increasing return to specialization; Large economies; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544355270     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2003.05.005     Document Type: Article

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