Contributions of local agglomeration to productivity: Stochastic frontier estimations from japanese manufacturing firm data

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 569-597

  Nakamura, Ryohei ^a,b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TRADE AND INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local agglomeration; Size of firms; Stochastic frontier; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DATA SET; FIRM SIZE; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTIVITY; STOCHASTICITY; URBANIZATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84865314790     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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