Adding geography to the new economic geography: Bridging the gap between theory and empirics

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 793-823

  Bosker, Maarten ^a   Brakman, Steven ^a   Garretsen, Harry ^a   Schramm, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Empirics; Multi region simulations; New economic geography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD;

EID: 77958500040     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq003     Document Type: Article

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