Do U.S. Multinationals Engage In Sequential Choice?: Evidence from New Manufacturing Operations in Europe

Raymond Mataloni

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Abstract: Despite an extensive literature on the determinants of the foreign location choices by multinational companies, researchers have only recently begun to systematically examine how these companies form their location consideration sets. When considering new foreign locations, do firms evaluate the attributes of the alternatives at the national level, the sub-national regional level, at some other level of geographical aggregation, or using some combination of these? This paper employs discrete choice models to examine how U.S. multinational companies form their location consideration sets and to identify some of the relevant location attributes. The results indicate that U.S. firms tend to employ a sequential, or hierarchical, decision-making process in which a host country is first chosen based on one set of attributes and then a region within that country is chosen based on another set of attributes. The relevant location attributes include industrial agglomeration and labor market conditions.

Keywords: nested logit; multinational companies; location choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-11-14
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