<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper analyses the location of foreign direct investment across the regions of Great Britain over 1985--2005 using the framework of discretized Markov chains. FDI is measured according to the regional share of inward investment projects, where a distinction is made between...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper analyses the location of foreign direct investment across the regions of Great Britain over 1985--2005 using the framework of discretized Markov chains. FDI is measured according to the regional share of inward investment projects, where a distinction is made between...

The paper decomposes a geographical concentration index between time-invariant and time varying location factors to examine the temporal scope of a spillover. This is the period of time over which one firm's activity directly affects the location of other activities in the same industry. An...

<title>Abstract</title> The use of information intermediaries has been shown to undermine the effect of brand in online markets. In this paper, the effect of consumer search on the relationship between brand advertising and pricing strategies is analysed. Price data are taken from the leading UK motor...

This paper's purpose is to review the recent experience of foreign direct investment (FDI) in North East England, and to explore the implications of this for the region's prospective economic development. Foreign-owned plants are reckoned to account for more than half the North East's employment...

The provision of financial assistance to industry has formed a growing and important part of the economic development policies of many local authorities. However, assessments of these policies have suffered from a number of drawbacks. In particular, they have tended to focus on the employment...

The paper argues that in order to use macro-evaluation techniques to calculate the employment effect of a policy over some sub-period after policy commencement, it is necessary to determine the rate at which policy jobs are lost. Crucially, it is the rate at which jobs cease to be attributable...

"3,000 Jobs to go in Motorola Closure", "Black and Decker cuts 1,000 jobs", "Vauxhall axes 2,000", "North-east jobs go as Viasystems fails", "NEC to close Scottish plant", "1,900 jobs to go as Ford confirms closure". These headlines are all taken from a national newspaper over a recent few years...

Ellison and Glaeser's (1997) index of geographical concentration distinguishes between natural advantages and spillovers as a source of industrial agglomeration, but the well-known 'observational equivalence' means little is known about the relative importance of these. This paper uses the...