How the West was Settled. The Location Choice of East German Companies Migrating to West Germany after World War II
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- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- N64 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - Europe: 1913-
- N94 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: 1913-
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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