Taxation, infrastructure and endogenous trade costs in new economic geography

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-222

  Gruber, Stefan ^a,b   Marattin, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endogenous trade costs; Infrastructure; New economic geography; Regional policy; Taxation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INVESTMENT; MODELING; PUBLIC GOODS; REGIONAL POLICY; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 77954406436     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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