Is competition between regions welfare-increasing?

Innovation, Agglomeration and Regional Competition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-230

  Geerdink, Gerhard C ^a   Stauvermann, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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