Multinationals' Location Choice, Agglomeration Economies, and Public Incentives

Salvador Barrios (), Holger Görg and Eric Strobl ()
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Holger Görg: Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, holger.gorg@nottingham.ac.uk

International Regional Science Review, 2006, vol. 29, issue 1, 81-107

Abstract: We study the regional location decision of multinationals in Ireland since the 1970s by focusing on the role played by agglomeration economies and by a distinct change in regional policy intent on dispersing industrial activity to the more disadvantaged areas of Ireland. We find that regional policy has only been effective in attracting low-tech firms to the disadvantaged areas during the time when there was a more indirect approach to regional policy. Our results also show that hi-tech firms spread more evenly across the country and that urbanization economies were for these firms a more important locational determinant than public incentives.

Keywords: multinationals; location; public incentives; Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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