Chapter 65 Spatial distribution of economic activities in Japan and China

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2911-2977

  Fujita, Masahisa ^a   Mori, Tomoya ^a   Henderson, J Vernon ^b   Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

agglomeration economies; China; convergence; core periphery pattern; F23; globalization; Henry George Theorem; Hierarchy Principle; Japan; O0; O18; O53; P3; R0; R11; R12; R14; R23; R58; urban agglomeration; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149137197     PISSN: 15740080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0080(04)80022-1     Document Type: Chapter

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