Financing flexibility in a global market: The metropolitan distribution of equity investment

Urban Geography

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 611-635

  Graves, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Command and control; Geography of finance; Investment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EQUITY; INVESTMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1042266937     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.24.7.611     Document Type: Article

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