Networks and Firm Location
JOURNAL
YEAR
Sep 21, 2007
TYPE
Articles in journals
AUTHORS
Pontes, J.
VOL Nº
41
PAGES
12
ABSTRACT
This paper models the decision of vertically-linked firms to build either partitioned or connected networks of suply of an intermediate good. In each case, there is a correlation between the locations of upstream and downstream firms.
JEL CLASS
KEYWORDS
Vertically-linked industries,Intermediate goods,Networks,Input flexibility