We develop an economic geography model which examines the spatial concentration of different kinds of activities during four stages of regional development. First, the localization of a "standardized" industry can be based on the exploitation of external and pecuniary scale economies within a...

The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model,...