Evaluating the geographic concentration of industries using distance-based methods

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-428

  Marcon, Eric ^a   Puech, Florence ^b  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Clustering; Geographic concentration; Location of firms

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MANUFACTURING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FRANCE;

EID: 0142027654     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbg016     Document Type: Article

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