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This paper adds to the scarce cross-country evidence on FDI location decisions between the EU-15 Member States and the ten new Members that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 from the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). To capture the discrete nature of the location choice,...
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This paper describes the determinants of FDI location among Italian provinces, focusing on the role of market potential (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...
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This study analyzes determinants of business relocation and identifies regional characteristics which attract relocating firms, using register data provided by Statistics Netherlands. Results indicate that the relocation decisions of firms are not only influenced by firm- and location-specific...
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This paper explains the location choices of multinational companies (MNCs) in a transition economy by traditional economic factors and institutional quality. Based on a thorough theoretical framework and a set of hypotheses, empirical data of an enterprise survey of 153 foreign firms in three...
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industries and countries’ features. Our research considers the pharmaceutical industry in China. This choice stems from a … contradictory observation: China is known for its important imitation capacities, but at the same time, it is becoming one of the … protection plays a role in attracting pharmaceutical FDI in China we conduct a documentary analysis over the 1980–2015 period …
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The present paper describes the construction and first empirical application of the TIGER model (TIGER is an abbreviation of "Transport and Infrastructure General Equilibrium model for Regions"). The TIGER model belongs to the group of regional CGE models, applying a mix of conventional...
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Modeling a micro-structure of agglomeration economies, this article derives a second-best benefit evaluation formula for urban transportation improvements. Without explicitly modeling the sources of agglomeration economies, Venables (JTEP 2007) investigated the same problem. This article...
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