July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1082 pages
39h 18m
English
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Chapter 64
The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the European Union
Pierre-Philippe Combes 1combes@enpc.fr CERAS, 48, bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France http://www.enpc.fr/ceras/combes.
Henry G. Overman 2h.overman@lse.ac.uk Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom http://cep.lse.ac.uk/~overman
JEL classification: F14, F15, R12
Abstract
This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial data sets that are fast becoming available at the national level. (ii) To present descriptive evidence on the ...