Measures of the geographic concentration of industries: Improving distance-based methods

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 745-762

  Marcon, Eric ^a   Puech, Florence ^b  

^a Campus Agronomique   (France)

^b University of Lyon 2   (France)

Author keywords

Distance based methods; Geographic concentration; K density function; M function; Ripley's K function

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION THEORY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955867197     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbp056     Document Type: Article

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