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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms

Mayer, Thierry; Méjean, Isabelle; Nefussi, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Economists explaining location choices of foreign affiliates usually focus on country-level determinants. Costs of production, the size of expected demand, proxies for agglomeration effects, and various policy-related incentives form the usual set of covariates. Two dimensions of those choices...

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Market Potential and the Location of Japanese Investment in the European Union

Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We investigate the hypothesis that firms prefer to locate ``where the markets are." We use a theoretical model of location choice under imperfect competition to formalise this concept. The model yields an equilibrium profit equation incorporating a term closely connected to the market potential...

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Do Local Amenities Affect the Appeal of Regions in Europe for Migrants?

Ketterer, Tobias; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper delves into the factors which determine the attractiveness of regions in Europe for migrants. Contrary to …-demographic and amenity-related territorial features, we examine the appeal of various regional characteristics for migrants by …

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The Impacts of Urban Public Transportation: Evidence from the Paris Region

Mayer, Thierry; Trevien, Corentin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

use the natural experiment offered by the opening and progressive extension of the Regional Express Rail (RER) between …

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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using data on German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper analyses determinants of international location choice and the degree of substitutability of labour across locations. Countries with highly skilled labour forces strongly attract German but not necessarily Swedish...

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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

on the migrant’s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …

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Evaluating Tax Policy for Location Decisions

Devereux, Michael P.; Griffith, Rachel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We consider the impact of taxation when investors face a discrete choice between two or more mutually exclusive projects; in particular we consider the location choice of multinationals. Such choices depend on an effective average tax rate. We propose a precise measure of this rate, which is...

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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries

Giavazzi, Francesco; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …

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The Exchange Rate - A Shock-Absorber or Source of Shocks? A Study of Four Open Economies

Artis, Michael J; Ehrmann, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …

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The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants

Atkin, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional … foods of their origin states. First, I focus on the preferences themselves and document that migrants bring their origin …

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