Economies of Scale in European Manufacturing Revisited
Economies of Scale in European Manufacturing Revisited
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重新审视欧洲制造业的规模经济
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2001
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通讯作者：
Frode Steen
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作者：
Espen Henriksen;K. H. Ulltveit;Frode Steen
我们测试了欧洲制造业的内部和外部规模经济，使用了比以前分析中使用的更具分类的数据集。我们的目标是将外部性与常见的商业周期效应分开。对德国、法国、英国和意大利的15个欧洲制造业进行了分析。我们关注三个层面的规模经济：民族产业、民族产业集群和跨国产业。我们的结果表明，由行业间外部效应和跨国效应产生的外部规模经济不如行业和企业层面上的收益增加那么普遍。我们的结果强调了内部和外部规模经济研究中分解水平的重要性，并认为外部影响具有高度的国别和行业特殊性。
We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing, employing a more disaggregated data set than has been used in earlier analyses. We aim to separate externalities from common business cycle effects. Fifteen European manufacturing industries in Germany, France, the UK and Italy are analysed. We focus on economies of scale at three levels: the national industry, the national industrial cluster and the transnational industry. Our results suggest that external economies of scale arising from inter-industry external effects and cross-country effects are less prevalent than increasing returns at the level of the industry and firm. Our results underscore the importance of the level of disaggregation in studies of internal and external economies of scale and argue that the external effects are highly country and industry specific.