Behrens, Kristian; Picard, Pierre M. - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 6, pp. 1244-1278
We present a model in which governments bid for firms by taxing/subsidizing setup costs. Firms choose both the number and the location of the plants they operate, and the equilibrium industry structure is affected by governments' subsidy choices. We show that the endogenous presence of...