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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic: The importance of agglomeration economies

Hecht, Veronika - 2015

This paper analyses the location choice of German investors in the Czech Republic based on a unique dataset covering … investment (FDI) location is an important regional policy issue as FDI is supposed to improve the labour market conditions of the … the location choice decision is investigated. The main result of the paper is that apart from a low distance to the …

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Rocketing rents: the magnitude and attenuation of agglomeration economies in the commercial property market

Koster, Hans - 2012

In this paper I measure the impact of urbanisation and localisation economies on commercial rents (offices and industrial buildings) using unique micro-data on both commercial property transactions, as well as all firm (establishment) locations. I add to the literature in three important ways....

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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic. The importance of agglomeration economies

Hecht, Veronika - 2015

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Entrepreneurial Clusters and the Co-agglomeration of Related Industries: Spinouts in Portuguese Plastics and Molds

Baptista, Rui; Costa, Carla - 2014

plastics industries, focusing on the location and genealogy of firms. Second, we conduct an econometric analysis of detailed …

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The taller the better? Agglomeration determinants and urban structure

Curci, Federico - 2015

database has been personally built combining information on geographic establishments location from the U.S. Census Bureau with …

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No place like home? . location choice and firm survival after forced relocation in the German machine tool industry

Buenstorf, Guido; Guenther, Christina - 2007

We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of … East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry …

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The origins of entrants and the geography of the German laser industry

Buenstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - 2008

Entry into an industry often clusters in regions where the industry is already concentrated, which is suggestive of agglomeration economies. Regional public research activities may exert another attracting force on entrants into science-based industries. Empirically these proximity effects are...

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Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976-2018

Donovan, Stuart; de Graaff, Thomas; Grimes, Arthur L.; … - 2021

We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using a simple economic model and detailed micro-data on 134 locations in New Zealand for the period 1976-2018. We find subtle temporal variation, with estimates peaking in 1991 and then...

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Firm location determinants: Empirical evidence for France

Rocha, Nadia - 2008

models are estimated as they naturally allow for large sets of location choices with frequent zero outcomes and control for … unobserved zip-code heterogeneity. To measure the geographic extent of location externalities we compute localization … non-exporting firms. Our results show that agglomeration economies at zip-code level strongly effect the location decision …

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Does the crisis change the nature of agglomeration economies in Indonesia? A productivity analysis of pre-post 1997-1998 financial crisis

Khoirunurrofik, Khoirunurrofik - In: REGION 7 (2020) 2, pp. 85-106

By examining their source and magnitude, this paper looked at the changes in the nature of Indonesia's agglomeration economies over three distinct, successive periods: the pre-crisis boom (1990-1996), the deep crisis (1997-2000), and the post-crisis recovery (2001-2010). We found that economies...

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