出版社：Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
摘要：THIS PAPER DESCRIBES TRENDS IN SPECIALISATION OF REGIONS AND
CONCENTRATION OF INDUSTRIES WITHIN THE eUROPEAN UNION. iT
COMPLEMENTS EXISTING EMPIRICAL STUDIES THAT TEND TO FOCUS ON
COUNTRY DATA. bOTH SPECIALISATION AND CONCENTRATION HAVE
DECLINED, INDICATING THAT AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL THERE IS A CONVERGENCE
OF ECONOMIC STRUCTURES AND A DISPERSION OF ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES OF INDUSTRIES. tHIS IS SURPRISING, SINCE COUNTRY
STUDIES TEND TO FIND THE OPPOSITE. a TENTATIVE EXPLANATION FOR
THIS EMPIRICAL PARADOX IS THAT eUROPEAN iNTEGRATION ALLOWS
SPECIALISATION AND CONCENTRATION FORCES TO WORK AT THE INTERNATIONAL
LEVEL, WHERE THEY HAD BEFORE BEEN CONFINED TO REGIONS
WITHIN COUNTRIES.
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