Yamashita, Nobuaki; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Nakajima, Kentaro - Faculty of Economics, Keio University - 2013
This paper examines the agglomeration effects of multinational firms on the location decisions of first-time Japanese manufacturing investors in China for the period 1995-2007. This is accomplished by exploiting newly constructed measures of inter-firm backward and forward linkages formed in a...