Trade and the topography of the spatial economy

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1085-1139

  Allen, Treb ^a   Arkolakis, Costas ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; LABOR MOBILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRADE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911462070     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju016     Document Type: Article

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