A spatial equilibrium model for plant location and interregional trade

Oppen, M von and Scott , J T (1976) A spatial equilibrium model for plant location and interregional trade. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58 (3). pp. 437-445. ISSN 0002-9092

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Abstract

Combination of a single-equation location model and interregional trade analysis into one model provides an effective tool to simultaneously determine regionally optimal numbers and sizes of processing plants and optimal interregional trading and pricing. The results of an earlier empirical application of the model on the prospective soybean industry in India are reviewed after 4 years of actual development. Private industry is allocating its processing plants in line with the pattern computed by the model, and a comparatively costly plan of arbitrarily establishing one government plant at an arbitrary location has not been implemented

Item Type:	Article
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Uncontrolled Keywords:	Agricultural industry, India, interregional trade, location theory, soybeans
Subjects:	Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Depositing User:	Mr B K Murthy
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2014 01:20
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2014 01:20
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/7433
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1239260
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