Directional imbalance in transport prices and economic geography

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-102

  Takahashi, Takaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior of transport firms; Break point; Export price effect; Import price effect; Joint production; Marginal cost of shipment; Return constraint; Substitution between imports and domestic products; Sustain point

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349308473     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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