Yamashita, Nobuaki; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Nakajima, Kentaro - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 34 (2014) C, pp. 24-41
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...