Internal versus external economies in European industry
Internal versus external economies in European industry
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欧洲工业的内部经济与外部经济
DOI：
10.1016/0014-2921(90)90060-c
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发表时间：
1990
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
R. Lyons
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作者：
Ricardo J. Caballero;R. Lyons
本文对西德、法国、英国和比利时这四个欧洲国家的两位数制造业的内部规模回报和外部经济指数进行了估计，这些国家的必要数据都足够长。总体而言，我们几乎没有发现内部规模回报递增的证据：在13个两位数的行业中，只有橡胶和塑料制品、农业和工业机械以及矿产产品显示出显著的内部规模递增回报，因为这三个行业中没有一个行业的内部规模回报递增超过四个国家中的两个。另一方面，所有四个国家都存在外部经济的证据，其影响在法国和比利时尤其强烈。
This paper presents estimates of indexes of internal returns to scale and external economies for two-digit manufacturing industries in the four European countries for which the requisite data are available in adequate length: West Germany, France, the U.K., and Belgium. Overall, we find very little evidence of internal increasing returns to scale: of the thirteen two-digit industries, only Rubber and Plastic Products, Agricultural and Industrial Machinery, and Mineral Products exhibit any significant internal increasing returns to scale, and for none of the three is internal increasing returns present in more than two of the four countries. Evidence of external economies, on the other hand, exists for all four countries, the effects of which are especially strong in France and Belgium.