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What Explains the Location of Industry in Britain, 1871-1931

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Crafts, Nicholas
Mulatu, Abay

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Where transport costs were falling, were the new economic geography forces for industry agglomeration and dispersion at work in the movement of industry in pre-1931 Britain? This Paper examines the issue empirically using a general model that nests the Heckscher-Ohlin factor endowment with new economic geography models. The evidence suggests that while the former mainly drove the location of pre-1931 British industry, the scale economies aspect of the latter also played a role.

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Keywords: agglomeration economies british manufacturing industry location transport costs

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N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913
O18 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
O52 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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  1. Julio Martinez Galarraga & Elisenda Paluzie Hernandez & Jordi Pons Novell & Daniel Aurelio Tirado Fabregat, 2007. "Agglomeration and labour productivity in Spanish industry: a long-term analysis," Working Papers in Economics 175, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]
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