Regional business cycles and the emergence of sheltered economies in the Southern Periphery of Europe

Growth and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 621-648

  Rodríguez Pose, Andrés ^a   Fratesi, Ugo ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MARKET CONDITIONS; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GREECE; ITALY; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36849046371     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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