This paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstram firms. We show that optimal policy towards upstream in-dustries typically di¤er from the optimal policy towards downstream industries.

This paper analyses the relationship between the size of jurisdictions and the degree of redistribution. A simple political economy model with cross-border shopping and limited and impure altruism is developed in order to study how the size of jurisdictions affects both the cost of...

Anticipation of technological progress may induce potential buyers to delay adoption of a new product. We analyze how buyers' waiting option can alter firms' innovation strategies. It is shown that the firms' choice of innovation strategies relies on the possibility of selling products before...

Two jurisdictions compete to capture the rents of a large multinational enterprise (MNE) which invests locally and which is partly owned by local investors. The MNE contributes to local welfare by tax payments and dividends and it has private information about the efficiency of the operations in...

Empirical evidence suggests that there are important spillovers as-sociated with the operations of multinational enterprises. Spillovers may occur when less advanced, local firms learn from their more ad-vanced, foreign competitors. But less advanced firms may also actively seek knowledge by...