Economics A-Level
Agglomeration
What Agglomeration means in Economics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Agglomeration
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Reference: AQA
Geographical concentration of an industry, whose expansion shifts the firm's long-run average cost curve downwards.
Topics that use Agglomeration
- Economies and diseconomies of scale (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Alienation
- Diseconomies of scale
- Economies of scale
- Empirical evidence
- External economies of scale
- Internal economies of scale
- Long-run average cost (LRAC) curve
- Market structure
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