We study the regional location decision of multinationals in Ireland since the 1970s by focusing on the role played by … disadvantaged areas of Ireland. We find that regional policy has only been effective in attracting low-tech firms to the …

We use a unique exogenous corporate tax policy change in the Republic of Ireland to investigate how corporate taxation … increase in corporate tax rates for exporters did affect the entry or exit of plants from the US or UK in Ireland. Entry rates … Ireland reduce the size of their operations in response to the tax change …

distribution of manufacturing activity and its determinants in Belgium, Ireland, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro …-level data sets. Some similarities are found between Portugal and Belgium, but little for Ireland. Moreover, there is some …

sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado …

domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser …

We use a unique exogenous corporate tax policy change in the Republic of Ireland to investigate how corporate taxation … increase in corporate tax rates for exporters did affect the entry or exit of plants from the US or UK in Ireland. Entry rates … Ireland reduce the size of their operations in response to the tax change. …