The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

A Companion to Urban Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 7-23

  Rosenthal, Stuart S ^a   Strange, William C ^b,c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agglomeration economies; Geography; Localization; Micro empirics; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889489608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996225.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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