Heterogeneous transport costs and spatial sorting in a model of New Economic Geography*
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عنوان ژورنال: Papers in Regional Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1056-8190,1435-5957
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00245.x