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Title: Integration and the Competitiveness of Peripheral Industry

Author(s): Paul Krugman and Anthony Venables

Publication Date: January 1990

Keyword(s): Factor Markets, Industrial Location, Peripheral Industry and Trade Liberalization

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: This paper analyses economic integration between two economies; one central, with a large local market, and the other peripheral, with a small local market. Each economy has an imperfectly competitive manufacturing sector. Trade liberalization creates a strong incentive for the imperfectly competitive industry to concentrate in the central region, near the large market. This may cause the direction of net trade to be the opposite of that predicted by factor endowments. This effect may be offset by a lower wage in the periphery than in the centre; we find that in the early stages of integration relative wages in the centre and periphery diverge, with convergence occurring only in the later stages.

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Krugman, P and Venables, A. 1990. 'Integration and the Competitiveness of Peripheral Industry'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=363