Network and border effects: Where do foreign multinationals locate in Germany?

Spies, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2009.08.003

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“…This result suggests that the corporate tax rate in a country has no significant effect on the location of R&D activities by multinationals in regions of that country over and above other determinants of the location choice. Basile et al (2008) and Spies (2010) also find an insignificant effect of the corporate tax on the location choice of multinational firms.…”

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What determines the location choice of R&D activities by multinational firms?

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We analyse 446 location decisions of R&D activities by multinational firms incorporated in the European Union over 1999-2006. Our results suggest that on average, the location probability of a representative R&D foreign affiliate increased with agglomeration economies from foreign R&D activities, human capital, proximity to centres of research excellence and the research and innovation capacity of the region. Further, our evidence suggests that in comparison to European multinational firms, the effects of patents intensity and proximity to centres of research excellence were stronger in the case of North American multinational firms. While government R&D expenditure intensity increased the probability of location of R&D activities by European multinational firms in the region, it did not have a significant effect on the probability of location of R&D activities by North American multinational firms.JEL classification: F23; O32; R38

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“…For instance, Crozet et al (2004) find a positive effect on fdi in France whatever the country of origin of firms. When studying fdi in Germany, Spies (2010) always find a positive effect of market potential when conducting estimations for each industry separately. Pusterla and Resmini (2007), who focus on fdi in the NUTS 2 regions in four Eastern European countries, find that both local manufacturing employment and market potential variables positively affect fdi, although most of the impact is on low-tech industries and not on high-tech ones.…”

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“…For instance, past fdi is found to attract Japanese affiliates in European regions (Head and Mayer, 2004), and to induce both acquisitions and greenfield investments in Italy (Basile, 2004). Past investment also has an influence in both low-and high-tech industries in Germany (Spies, 2010), Eastern European countries (Pusterla and Resmini, 2007), and Ireland (Barrios et al, 2006). Basile et al (2008) find for European regions a positive effect of foreign presence on both European and non-European fdi.…”

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The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Combes¹,

Gobillon²

2015

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

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The empirics of agglomeration economies* We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and workers' endogenous location choices. We emphasise the impact of local density on productivity but we also consider many other local determinants supported by theory. Empirical issues are then addressed. Most important concerns are about endogeneity at the local and individual levels, the choice of a productivity measure between wage and TFP, and the roles of spatial scale, firms' characteristics, and functional forms. Estimated impacts of local determinants of productivity, employment, and firms' locations choices are surveyed for both developed and developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms.JEL Classification: J31, R12 and R23

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“…4 The first year covered by the dataset (2003) is used as the basis for the calculation of the (lagged) cumulative number of investments and therefore is not included in the empirical analysis. The nested logit procedure only takes into account regions chosen at least once as investment destinations (Spies, 2010).…”

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Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

Crescenzi

Pietrobelli

Rabellotti

2016

European Planning Studies

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This paper explores the location strategies of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) from emerging countries (EMNEs) in search for regional strategic assets. The analysis is based on a systematic comparison between EMNEs and multinationals from advanced countries (AMNEs) in order to unveil similarities and differences between these two major sources of foreign investments into the regions of the European Union. The empirical results suggest that EMNEs follow a distinct logic in their location strategies because they are attracted by the availability of technological competences only when their subsidiaries pursue more sophisticated and technology-intensive activities. Conversely EMNEs share some behavioural similarities with AMNEs in their response to the spatial agglomeration of investments. The paper is organized as follows. The next section reviews the literature dealing with the location of MNEs, introducing the determinants analysed in the empirical analysis with special reference to the expected behavioural differences between AMNEs and EMNEs.Section 3 introduces the empirical strategy and the dataset. The empirical results are presented in Section 4. Section 5 concludes with some policy considerations. A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: MNEs AND THEIR LOCATION DRIVERSThere is a widespread consensus in the literature that the understanding of the location behavior of MNEs is still underdeveloped. Referring to the Ownership-LocationInternalization (OLI) paradigm developed by Dunning (1977), the literature has dealt widely with the questions related to the why a firm becomes a multinational (O) and how it carries out its international adventure (I) but so far the discussion about where it goes to internationalize its activities (L) has remained rather fuzzy (Iammarino and McCann, 2013;McCann and Mudambi, 2005).

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Network and border effects: Where do foreign multinationals locate in Germany?

Cited by 50 publications

References 28 publications

What determines the location choice of R&D activities by multinational firms?

What determines the location choice of R&D activities by multinational firms?

The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

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