Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50066 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 306
Publisher: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Abstract: 
We analyse 446 location decisions of foreign affiliates in the R&D sector incorporated in the European Union over 1999-2006. Our results suggest that on average, the location probability increases with the size of demand, agglomeration economies, low production cost, R&D intensity, flexibility of labour markets, access to skilled labour and information technology infrastructure. Our evidence suggests that after controlling for the R&D intensity of regions, European Union's regional policy and country level tax differences have had no significant effects in fostering the attractiveness of regions to R&D foreign investment. We find evidence of geographical structures relevant for the location choice of R&D multinational firms across the European Union. Further, we find that European investors have responded differently to location characteristics in comparison to North American investors.
Subjects: 
foreign direct investment
internationalisation of R&D
location choice
conditional logit
nested logit
European Union
JEL: 
F23
O32
R38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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