Replacement, modernization or capacity expansion are frequently used as concepts allowing to characterize alternatives parts of the firms?' investment spending. But such a typology seems to be poorly tractable for an empirical analysis of investment behaviour. This paper aims at showing that...

This paper investigates the impact of environmental regulations on the location choices made by firms for their industrial activities, using a sample of newly appeared imports of French firms from foreign industrial subsidiaries. A simple static model based on the production cost minimization is...