No place like home? . location choice and firm survival after forced relocation in the German machine tool industry

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We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry agglomerations attract further entrants. Relocating firms outperformed entrants that possessed no prior industry experience; apparently were able to build on their prewar capabilities. We find no evidence suggesting that firm performance benefited from agglomeration effects.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,053

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
• Subject: Capabilities ; agglomeration economies ; location choice ; firm survival ; machine tool industry ; Standortwahl ; Lebenszyklus ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Werkzeugmaschinenbau ; Deutschland (bis 1945) ; DDR ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Buenstorf, Guido ; Guenther, Christina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25619
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