Home-field advantage: Location decisions of Portuguese entrepreneurs

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 341-361

  Figueiredo, Octávio ^a   Guimarães, Paulo ^b   Woodward, Douglas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional layout model; Domestic location; Portugal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036710644     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-1190(02)00006-2     Document Type: Article

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