Frontiers of the New Economic Geography

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 377-405

  Fujita, Masahisa ^a,b   Mori, Tomoya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Economic growth; International trade; New economic geography; Transport costs

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33747151343     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2005.00021.x     Document Type: Review

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