Exploring the detailed location patterns of U.K. manufacturing industries using microgeographic data

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 213-243

  Duranton, Gilles ^a   Overman, Henry G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; MANUFACTURING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38049100296     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.0547.x     Document Type: Article

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