Rising metropoli: The geography of mergers and acquisitions in Germany

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1895-1923

  Rodríguez Pose, Andrés ^a   Zademach, Hans Martin ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; MERGER; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY;

GERMANY;

EID: 0141817397     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000116031     Document Type: Article

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