Dots to boxes: Do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize economic geography estimations?

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 287-302

  Briant, A ^a   Combes, P P ^b   Lafourcade, M ^a,c  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c European Chair on Intellectual Capital and RITM University Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Concentration; Gravity; MAUP; Wage equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149120133     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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