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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic: The importance of agglomeration economies
Hecht, Veronika - 2015
host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … location of the parent company the attractive-ness of a Czech district for German investors is mainly driven by agglomeration … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German compa-nies in a region plays a decisive role. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335489
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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic. The importance of agglomeration economies
Hecht, Veronika - 2015
host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … location of the parent company the attractiveness of a Czech district for German investors is mainly driven by agglomeration … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German companies in a region plays a decisive role. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345564
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Patterns of regional firm mobility in Germany
Schröpf, Benedikt; Kovalenko, Tim - 2024
Although domestic establishment relocations are part of both the factor reallocation across regions and establishment dynamics within an economy, evidence on firm mobility in Germany is rather scarce. In this study, we therefore examine establishment- and regional-level patterns of firm mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014538727
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Patterns of regional firm mobility in Germany
Kovalenko, Tim; Schröpf, Benedikt - 2024
Although domestic establishment relocations are part of both the factor reallocation across regions and establishment dynamics within an economy, evidence on firm mobility in Germany is rather scarce. In this study, we therefore examine establishment- and regional-level patterns of firm mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014633256
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Economic growth of agglomerations and geographic concentration of industries : evidence for Germany
Geppert, Kurt (contributor); Gornig, Martin (contributor);  … - 2006
The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar in terms of per-capita income and productivity between 1980 and 2000. But a number of rich areas - generally large agglomerations - have succeeded in departing from this trend of convergence. They are continuing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003324227
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Job turnover, risk sharing, and regional wages in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2008
agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor … employment shocks. Both findings provide evidence that labor pooling matters as a source of agglomeration economies by allowing …, suggesting that agglomeration costs exceed the benefits from risk sharing. -- Marshallian Externalities ; Labor Pooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009373719
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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic : the importance of agglomeration economies
Hecht, Veronika - 2015
host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … location of the parent company the attractive-ness of a Czech district for German investors is mainly driven by agglomeration … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German compa-nies in a region plays a decisive role. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289954
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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic : the importance of agglomeration economies
Hecht, Veronika - 2015
host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … location of the parent company the attractiveness of a Czech district for German investors is mainly driven by agglomeration … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German companies in a region plays a decisive role. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346123
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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784050
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Blooming landscapes in the West? : German reunification and the price of land.
Schoettler, Raphael; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2016
German reunication was a positive market access shock for both East and West Germany. Regions that for 45 years had experienced a decline in population due to their loss in market access following the division of Germany of WWII were most strongly affected by this positive shock. We use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538151