This paper investigates the effects of agglomeration economies and state-level promotion policies on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States between 1977 and 1996. Specifically, it analyzes the level of foreign-owned real gross property, plant, and equipment (PPE)...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...

This paper examines the determinants of location within the Turkish manufacturing industry with respect to spatial interaction. Extending on previous studies on Turkey, this paper is the first attempt to model the location decision incorporating both region-specific and sector-specific factors....