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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740438
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Where do foreign firms locate in France and why?
Mayer, Thierry - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2004
This paper studies the determinants of individual location choices of manufacturing production units by foreign affiliates. It concentrates on the specific case of FDI location in France over the period from 1985 to 1995 and evaluates, in particular, how regional policies in favour of French...
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How do Firms Agglomerate? A Study of FDI in France
Crozet, Matthieu; Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the determinants of location choice by foreign investors in France. A new sample of almost 4000 location choices over ten years and 92 administrative locations is used to measure two important issues: To what extent do foreign investors cluster spatially and are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124361
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Regional Policy and FDI Location – an Overview of the Larger New EU Member States
Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014
Summary The paper compares three countries (Hungary, Poland and Romania) in terms of the number of greenfield FDI projects and of GDP by NUTS-2 sub-country regions. We discuss whether the particular regions received a smaller or larger share of projects than their share in GDP. Then we outline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820191
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Analysis of the regional location of the knowledge intensive services at European level
Gallego Martínez-Alcocer, Gallego Martínez-Alcocer , Jorge - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 17, pp. 71-92
This paper is an attempt to clarify recent trends in the distribution of knowledge intensive services (KIS) in Europe, which have emerged during the last decade as key agents for sustaining local and regional competitiveness. Firstly, particular attention is paid to the definition, the...
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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry
Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according the local embeddedness and research affinity of founders....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097691
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Stimuliert der BioRegio-Wettbewerb die Bildung von Biotechnologieclustern in Deutschland?
Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC)...
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Endogenous development. Theories and policies of territorial development
Vázquez Barquero, Vázquez Barquero , Antonio - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2007) 11, pp. 183-210
territories that have their own culture and institutions, upon which investment decisions are made. From this perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992248
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FDI and Corporate Geography in the Home Country
Cappariello, Rita; Federico, Stefano; Zizza, Roberta - FIW - 2010
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the home-country effects of FDI. Instead of comparing FDI firms to non-FDI firms, we look at what happens within multi-plant FDI firms and we compare headquarters to onheadquarter plants belonging to the same firm. Using survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500300
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How Do Firms Agglomerate? A Study of FDI in France?
Crozet, M.; Mayer, T.; Micchielli, J.L. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 2000
This paper studies the determinants of location choice by foreign investors in France. A new sample of almost 4000 location choices over 10 years and 92 administrative locations is used to measure two important issues : To what extent do foreign investors cluster spatially and are the decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776482