A model of economic geography with demand-pull and congestion costs

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-276

  Alonso Villar, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Congestion costs; Demand pull; Transport costs; Urban concentration

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; MODEL; NUMERICAL METHOD; SIMULATION;

EID: 49949111851     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2007.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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