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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions
Burger, Martijn J.; Knaap, Bert van der; Wall, Ronald S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
In the modern economy, cities are assumed to be in fierce competition over attracting foreign investments in leading sectors of the world economy. Despite the rich theoretical discourse on these 'wars', it remains unclear which territories are competing with each other over which types of...
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Economic integration, wage policies and social policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2003 - Final version: July 8, 2003
This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a...
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Räumliche Wirkungen der Globalisierung in Deutschland
Lammers, Konrad - 1999
verstärkten Wettbewerb der Standorte. Der zunehmende Standortwettbewerb impliziert für räumliche Entwicklungsmuster einerseits … Standortwettbewerb muß die Politik jede Möglichkeit nutzen, um Vorteile für den eigenen Standort zu erschließen, und dazu gehört auch … Vorteil im Standortwettbewerb. Von einer Stärkung föderaler Elemente sind weitere Impulse für eine wettbewerbsfähige …
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Heterogeneous Labor Mobility, Capital Flow, and Subsidy Competition
Chen, Ching-mu - 2011
To examine the effects of heterogeneous labor mobility on the distribution of industries and analyze the subsidy policy for attracting firms, this paper develops an analytically solvable new economic geography model, which incorporates heterogeneous locational preferences and an intra-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119673
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Revealed competition for greenfield investments between European regions
Burger, Martijn J.; Knaap, G. A. van der; Wall, Ronald S. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723033
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Nordrhein-Westfalen als Standort für japanische Produktionsstätten im nationalen und europäischen Vergleich
Legewie, Jochen - In: Wirtschaftsgeographische Entwicklungen in …, (pp. 159-189). 1995
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Regional Trust, Liabilities of Foreignness and the Location Decision of Multinational Firms in Europe
de Bliek, Ruben - 2015
When investing in a foreign country, multinational enterprises face social, political and organizational information asymmetries. This liability of foreignness (LOF) introduces additional costs, threaten profitability and deter foreign direct investments. In this study we investigate if certain...
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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2021
This paper uses a two country trade and geography model of monopolistic competition to study the effects of wage policies and social policies on the location of industry. It is first shown that a union wage push in one of two otherwise identical countries induces a relocation of firms which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319979
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Import Competition and Industry Location in a Small-Country Model of Productivity Growth
Davis, Colin - 2019
We study the effects of import competition on industry locations patterns in a small open economy with two regions. Domestic productivity growth converges to the international rate through firm-level investment in process innovation. With firms locating production and innovation in their lowest...
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Role of Environment in Strengthening Competitiveness of Cities by Example of European Green Capitals and Tallinn
Ratas, Jüri - 2015
. The level of urbanisation in Europe was 72.7% in 2010 and the UN forecast that it will increase to 82.2% by 2050. The … highest quality of life in Europe. The objective of this article is to analyse the areas of the city's environmental …
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