Economic Geography
Economic geography analyses and models the spatial distribution of economic activities. Examples include the location of firms in cities, the worldwide R&D collaborations of firms, the concentration of foreign direct investments in particular regions, or the competition of production centers.
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Economic Specialization and the Nested Bipartite Network of City-Firm Relations
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The Network of Inter-regional Direct Investment Stocks across Europe
ACS - Advances in Complex Systems - 2007
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Evolution und Selbstorganisation in der Ökonomie / Evolution and Self-Organization in Economics - 1998
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