The number-average size rule: A new empirical relationship between industrial location and city size

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 165-211

  Mori, Tomoya ^a   Nishikimi, Koji ^b   Smith, Tony E ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION SIZE; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 38049140676     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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