subsidiaries and empirically investigates this relationship in the UK at a disaggregated regional level. It focuses particularly on … Specificity Framework (ASF) combining regional characteristics with distinctive types of subsidiaries. This framework is further … agglomeration features playing the most significant role. At the same time though, idiosyncratic Foreign Direct Investment (FDI …

This paper studies the effects of agglomeration economies on the location choices by foreign firms in Vietnam. By using … agglomeration effects on the location choices by foreign investments in transition economies in general and in Vietnam in particular …. The estimates of the negative binomial regression model and the conditional logit model show that agglomeration benefits …

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm … economic activity. -- firm heterogeneity ; agglomeration ; technological change ; trade ; labor mobility …