Technology Adoption and the Emergence of Regional Asymmetries
该模型基于质量改进技术的采纳，解释了区域间生产结构不对称性的出现，发现市场整合会阻碍技术全面采纳并助长区域不对称。
The model explains the emergence of asymmetric productive structures among regions based on adoption of a quality improving technology. Firms’ products are differentiated both in location and quality, location is given. We characterize symmetric and asymmetric equilibria of the two stage game in price and adoption. Asymmetric equilibria display partial adoption frequencies and regular geographical patterns of adoptions. The asymmetry of the economy has, often, a reverse U‐shaped relation with the innovation size. Market integration is an obstacle for the full adoption of the new technology and favours the emergence of regional asymmetries.