• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in the Central and Eastern European Countries Using Multilevel Data
  • Contributor: Rasciute, Simona [VerfasserIn]; Pentecost, Eric J. [VerfasserIn]; Marques, Helena [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, 2014
  • Published in: Loughborough University Discussion Paper ; No. 2007-22
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (31 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1171030
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 23, 2008 erstellt
  • Description: This paper employs a novel multi-level data set and a multinomial logit model - to examine the factors explaining 1,223 foreign investment location decisions by firms in the EU(15), Japan, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and the US in 12 Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). The highly significant empirical results, based on a general underlying model of imperfect competition, show that the responsiveness of foreign direct investment in the CEECs to country-level variables differs significantly both across sectors and across firms of different sizes and profitability. In particular, in addition to the traditional importance of market size and distance, firm size and the effective corporate tax rate are also important for the location of investment
  • Access State: Open Access