Scale Economies and Cities

This paper summarizes the policy-relevant insights of a generation of research on scale economies. Scale economies in production are of three types: internal economies associated with large plants, localization economies that come from sharing of inputs and infrastructure and from greater competitio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gill, Indermit S., Goh, Chor-Ching
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4440