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Functional fragmentation and the location of multinational firms in the enlarged Europe

Defever, Fabrice - HAL - 2006

Despite the recent advances in the theory of location, the analysis of the role of services surrounding production activity has been largely neglected. This paper analyzes the co-location of a multinational firm's value chain in the enlarged European Union. Depending on its particular...

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Optimising the Global Value Chain: An Analysis of the Automobile Industry

Mayrhofer, Ulrike; Colovic, Ana - HAL - 2009

This article analyses location strategies pursued by multinational corporations. The authors examine different conceptual frameworks proposed in the literature, in order to identify major determinants of location choice. The analysis focuses on production and R&D activities, which play a...

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Immigrants' location choice in Belgium

Jayet, Hubert; Rayp, Glenn; Ruyssen, Ilse; Ukrayinchuk, … - HAL - 2014

This paper analyses migratory streams to Belgian municipalities between 1994-2007. The Belgian population register constitutes a rich and unique database of yearly migrant inflows and stocks broken down by nationality, which allows us to empirically explain the location choice of immigrants at...

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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited

Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013

We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of a "rich" center and more complex socio-spatial...

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Subsidy competition in integrating economies

Albornoz, Facundo; Corcos, Grégory - HAL - 2005

Regional integration affects location decisions of MNCs and therefore influences each member country's provision of investment incentives, which in turn may trigger relocation. As a consequence, subsidy competition increases as integration proceeds. We analyze the welfare consequences of this...

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Polycentric city and multi-worker households: an agent-based microeconomic model

Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013

Polycentrism in cities is studied with the help of an agent-based model grounded in the Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM) framework, using microeconomic interactions between heterogeneous agents. This model is shown to reproduce the standard urban equilibrium with two income groups. Two job centers at...

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R&D lab location. Evidence from the French case

Autant-Bernard, Corinne - HAL - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how regional advantages and firms characteristics influence the location of R&D. Looking at 2024 decisions of R&D lab location in France, we implement an extended conditional logit with spatially lagged explanatory variables to evaluate the...

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Transboundary Pollution in China: A Study of Polluting Firms' Location Choices in Hebei Province

Duvivier, Chloe; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2011

Transboundary pollution is a particularly serious problem as it leads people located at regional borders to disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts between provinces have occurred several times,...

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Does diversity of bank board members affect performance and risk? Evidence from an emerging market

Setiyono, Bowo; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2014

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …

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Actuarial risk assessment of expected fatalities attributable to carbon capture and storage in 2050

Ha-Duong, Minh; Loisel, Rodica - HAL - 2011

non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …

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