European Integration and Geographical Concentration of Swedish Multinationals

Thomas Mathä

No 305, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates whether European integration has an effect on the geographical concentration of Swedish multinationals' production inside the European Union. The results indicate that agglomeration and dispersion forces are present, and that the relative strength of these forces has been affected by the EU integration process. In particular, the European integration process has reduced intra-EU transaction costs, and thus the need of R&D intensive multinationals to engage in local production to fully appropriate the return of their assets. The results further suggest that EU integration has led Swedish MNEs to increase dispersion of production inside the European Union.

Keywords: Economic integration; multinational enterprises; geographical concentration and dispersion. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 1999-02-12
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