This is 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 competition among firms, and urbanization economies that are generated through diversity and knowledge spillovers. The benefits (and costs) of localization and urbanization...
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2010/08/01
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Scale economies and cities
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scale economy
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Gill,Indermit S.; Goh, Chor-Ching.
Scale economies and cities (English). Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/451181468325199804