Empirical Studies in Industrial Location: An Assessment of Their Methods and Results

By J. Arauzo‐Carod, Daniel Liviano-Solís, M. Manjón-Antolín. 2009

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This paper surveys recent evidence on the determinants of (national and/or foreign) industrial location. We find that the basic analytical framework has remained essentially unaltered since the early contributions of the early 1980s while, in contrast, there have been advances in the quality of the data (more firm and plant level information, geographical disaggregation, panel structure, etc.) and, to a lesser extent, the econometric modeling. We also identify certain determinants (neoclassical and institutional factors) that tend to provide largely consistent results across the reviewed studies. In light of this evidence, we finally suggest future lines of research.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Transboundary pollution in China: a study of polluting firms' location choices in Hebei province (2013, neutral): “On the one hand, firms are attracted to regions with agglomeration economies (Arauzo-Carod et al., 2010), i.”
Does environmental regulation drive away inbound foreign direct investment? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China (2016, background): “, Arauzo-Carod et al., 2010, for a review). One way to capture agglomeration economies in the literature is to include the historical stock of FDI (e.g., Wagner and Timmins, 2009). However, as discussed by Lechner (2010), the problem with the inclusion of the lagged dependent variable in the DD sett”
Location determinants of high-growth firms (2015, methodology): “Arauzo-Carod, Liviano-Solis, and Manjón-Antolín (2010) suggest that the three basic firm locational determinants (see 702–705) are: (1) neoclassical factors such as agglomeration economies, the quality of human capital and transportation infrastructure; (2) institutional factors such as taxes…”
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