Self-organized agglomerations and transport costs

Economic Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 565-589

  Picard, Pierre M ^a,b   Tabuchi, Takatoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b University of Tokyo ^*  (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Asymptotic stability; Continuous distribution; Fourier series

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449175266     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-008-0410-4     Document Type: Article

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