Regional determinants of MNE’s location choice in post-transition economies

Andrea Gauselmann and Philipp Marek ()

Empirica, 2012, vol. 39, issue 4, 487-511

Abstract: This article focuses on the impact of agglomeration and labour market factors on the location choice of MNEs in post-transition economies. We compare data from 33 regions in East Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland using a mixed logit model on a sample of 4,343 subsidiaries for the time period between 2000 and 2010. The results show that agglomeration advantages, such as sectoral specialization as well as a region’s economic and technological performance prove to be some of the most important pull factors for FDI in post-transition regions. With respect to access to labour, the results suggest that FDI in post-transition regions is (no longer) only dominated by efficiency seeking behaviour, but also by access to well-qualified labour. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012

Keywords: Multinational enterprises; Agglomeration effects; International business; Regional economic activity: growth; development; and changes; Discrete choice; JEL Classification; F23; R11; C25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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