Trade costs in empirical new economic geography

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-511

  Bosker, Maarten ^a   Garretsen, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Market access; New economic geography; Trade costs

Indexed keywords

COST; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRADE;

EID: 79951534727     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2010.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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