Title

Foreign Direct Investment: Agglomeration Economies And Returns To Promotion Expenditures

Abstract

The effect of a state's financial incentives to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) is a frequent topic for both economists and policy makers. Many studies have shown that FDI are disproportionately concentrated in states with agglomeration economies. This paper uses a conditional logit model with FDI (new plants) data from 1987-1994 to explore the relationship between state efforts, state characteristics, and FDI attraction. Key results show that both promotion expenditures and agglomeration economies are important in attracting foreign plants. Results also indicate that promotion expenditures by states with small economies can partially offset location disadvantages of agglomeration (urbanization and/or localization) economies and thus appear to be a useful economic development tool as states compete for investment.

Publication Date

6-1-2003

Publication Title

Review of Regional Studies

Volume

33

Issue

1

Number of Pages

61-72

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

26944459612 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/26944459612

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