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Location and organization choice of firms

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Kenmei Tsubota () (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
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We construct a two-region model of monopolistic competition with mobile entrepreneurs. Typical implicit assumption on increasing returns to scale sector is that firms can produce and sale only at one place. We explicitly introduce multi-plant case and examine location equilibrium with decreasing transpiration costs. The difference between single-plant and multi-plant firms lies in export-fixed cost and set-up fixed cost of multi-plant. We find that at certain transportation costs, firms change their organization type from multi-plant to single-plant and, with further decrease in transportation costs, firms concentrate in one region.

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Paper provided by Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research in its series KIER Working Papers with number 679.

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Keywords: Economic Integration; Organization of Production; Horizontal FDI; Export Fixed Cost; Transaction Cost;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior
F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies
L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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