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The Role of Geography and Institutions in determining FDI flows into Italian Provinces
Battista, Attilio Di - European Regional Science Association - 2013
(in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime …, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour judicial system). Provinces with better access to neighbouring … subjects, fewer corruption episodes and lower presence of organized crime should also be associated with higher flows of FDIs …
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The Motives for the FDI Location Choice in the `Old' and `New' Europe
Serwicka, Ilona Elzbieta; Jones, Jonathan; Wren, Colin - European Regional Science Association - 2014
This paper adds to the scarce cross-country evidence on FDI location decisions between the EU-15 Member States and the ten new Members that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 from the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). To capture the discrete nature of the location choice,...
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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: A LAND-USE AND TRANSPORT INTERACTION MODEL FOR SWITZERLAND
Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Zeiler, Alexandra; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...
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Institutions and the geography of foreign investment in European New Member States and Neighbouring Countries.
Ascani, Andrea; Crescenzi, Riccardo; Iammarino, Simona - European Regional Science Association - 2013
behaviour of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is shaped by recipient countries? economic institutions. These include the size of … geographical structure of location behaviour. Thirdly, the paper considers that preferences over economic institutions may vary … across MNEs. This variation in the attractiveness of economic institutions is thus investigated by implementing a random …
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Economic development of ultra small peripheral regions of West Europe (Case of Aland and Faroe islands)
Efimova, Elena; Kuznetsova, Natalia - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The article deals with the problem of West European and Nordic countries small economies as well as ultra-small autonomous territories of Alands and Faeroes island's development. The latter are considered as the «competitive sub-peripheries» areas due to the special industrial organization...
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New Tools for New Regional Policy in Central European Countries
Szitasiova, Valeria; Sipikal, Miroslav - European Regional Science Association - 2013
present regional policy. We conducted interviews with relevant companies and support institutions to identify their relevance …
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Coherence of the EU cohesion policy and national regional policy: the case of the Czech Republic
Novosák, Jiøí - European Regional Science Association - 2014
There is a high research and political interest in regional disparities now. Regional disparities are at the heart of prominent theories of regional development as well as of the ambitious project of European integration. Moreover, regional policies at various spatial levels are formulated in...
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Typology of peripheral sub-regions in the European Union
Jacek So³tys - European Regional Science Association - 2014
A common phenomenon of development is the big difference in its levels, especially between metropolitan areas and other areas, called peripheries. There are also big differences in opportunities for development, including the location of new investment. Peripheral areas are characterized by...
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Patterns of FDI in Southern European Periphery: a Tale of Missing FDI?
Resmini, Laura - European Regional Science Association - 2014
This paper examines patterns of FDI inflows to Southern European (SE) regions, which seem to be at the margin of the FDI attraction game accounting for a very small share of total inward FDI in the EU. In order to understand why these regions attracted such a low number of foreign investors,...
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Spatial Externalities and Place-Based Policies: Evidence from the Netherlands
Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos Van - European Regional Science Association - 2013
We study neighbourhood externalities caused by large public investments in poor neighbourhoods. A stylised theory of a linear city is proposed to guide interpretation of the magnitude and attenuation of the external effects generated by these public investments. We use a large Dutch nationwide...
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