Formation of Hub Cities: Transportation Cost Advantage and Population Agglomeration

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-28

  Konishi, Hideo ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hub city; endogenous city formation; spatial general equilibrium; labor demand in transportation sector; constant returns to scale; perfect competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007887969     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/juec.1999.2150     Document Type: Article

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