Abstract
The aim of this work is to show that the design of regions for industrial policy matters for the economic growth of the countries. The main hypothesis of this research is that the presence of regional boundaries has a negative and significant effect on the interaction among the industries crossing borders. Under the validation of this hypothesis our final purpose consists in designing optimal regional settings to promote the economic growth. We propose an approach of 3 steps. In the first step, we analyze the pertinence of some strategies different from redesigning the industrial regions using a game theoretical approach. The last two steps (which are still in progress) provides empirical evidence to validate our main hypothesis and formulates the corresponding optimization problem to find the best regional division to promote the economic growth.
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Daniel Restrepo es economista y matemático de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y estudiante del doctorado en Economia de la Universidad EAFIT. Sus intereses de investigación se centran en teoría de juegos y economía espacial.