Industrial location at a local level: Comments on the territorial level of the analysis

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-208

  Arauzo Carod, Josep Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agglomeration economies; Catalonia; Cities; Count data models; Industrial location

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149142316     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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