European market integration and the determinants of firm localization: The case of Poland

Agnieszka Gehringer () and Astrid Krenz

No 190, University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics from University of Goettingen, Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper analyses empirically the determinants of firms´ localization in Poland. We use regional data of the sixteen Polish administrative regions over the period 2003 to 2010 to examine which role agglomeration forces and other factors played in explaining the choice to operate in a certain location. Our results suggest that agglomeration economies stemming in particular from the R&D sector, as well as human capital and the infrastructure positively influence the regional localization of firms. Poland´s accession to the European Union had a positive impact for the location decision of new firms in the Polish economy.

Keywords: localization; agglomeration economies; knowledge externalities; Polish regions; European integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F15 F23 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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