Firm behaviour and public infrastructure - The Case of Hungary

Gábor Békés and Balazs Murakozy

No 504, CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS from Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

Abstract: In the paper, we test the effect of local development, regional and local policies on the location decisions and productivity of firms. Development indicators include local research and development activity or education while policy decisions used in this study encompass for example tax rates, investment incentives or road construction. The study builds upon a large national panel of firms. Importantly, such a rich dataset has rarely been employed for productivity and location choice exercises. The paper is composed of two sections dealing with location choice and productivity, respectively and we compare the effect of variables used in both sections. Among others, we find that density of road network positively influenced location choice and productivity as well, while a somewhat larger size of administration helps new firms to settle but later on, it has no effect on productivity.

Keywords: industrial location; FDI; productivity; discrete choice mod-els; GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 C35 D24 H7 R12 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2005-06
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