Specialization and risk sharing in European regions

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 645-659

  Basile, Roberto ^a,b   Girardi, Alessandro ^a  

^a Department of Macroeconomics   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

European regions; Non parametric methods; Risk sharing; Spatial econometrics; Specialization

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; EUROPEAN UNION; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955875362     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbp047     Document Type: Article

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