Agglomeration and FDI: Bringing International Production Linkages into the Picture

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Abstract The attractiveness of a country for foreign direct investors stems from domestic factors but also from its interconnectedness with the global economy. While knowledge spillovers and domestic inter-industry linkages have been examined by the literature on FDI location, international linkages have been neglected due to data constraints. Using global input-output data, this paper investigates the role of backward and forward production linkages between countries for location choices of first-time greenfield FDI investors in the EU along with traditional agglomeration forces. In line with the literature it is found that firms tend to co-locate with other firms from the same country and industry. Most importantly, inter-industry linkages between the source and the host country emerge as an important attraction factor while the same does not hold for domestic inter-industry linkages.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: wiiw Working Paper ; No. 121

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
• Thema: foreign direct investment ; multinational enterprises ; location choice ; agglomeration ; international linkages

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stöllinger, Roman
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)
• (wo): Vienna
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/203986
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ