Chapter 48 Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2063-2117

  Duranton, Gilles ^a   Puga, Diego ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

agglomeration; cities; increasing returns; micro foundations; R12; R13; R32

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049127070     PISSN: 15740080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0080(04)80005-1     Document Type: Chapter

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