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Abstract

The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Economic Geography provides an overview and assessment of research methods, approaches, and applications used in economic geography. The overlap between economics and geography provides the fo1.mdation for Economic Geography as a subject, which has gained significant attention as of late. Economic geography has generated ample literature in theoretical and empirical domains to address issues,such as the "tyranny of distance." Broadly, the Handbook is divided into four parts that encompass the methods in economic geography and regional sciences, methods and approaches of regional and interregional analyses, and specific issues in economic geography. The first part of the Handbook provides theoretical models developed in economics and geography and their extensions.An in-depth discussion of the implications of geography for standard neoclassical trade models, such as the factor price models of international trade, and agglomeration of economic activity follows.