Measuring economic localization: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-220

  Nakajima, Kentaro ^a   Saito, Yukiko Umeno ^b   Uesugi, Iichiro ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^c HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Economic geography; Micro geographic data; Service sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861781462     PISSN: 08891583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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