Economic and ecological incentives drive the recycling of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles in Europe. As a pretreatment process step, this includes the disassembly. However, the exact choice of location for a disassembly plant represents a complex strategic decision...

Purpose This research investigates the effect of accessibility to points of tourist interest (buffer) and direct and indirect spatial spillover effects of agglomeration economies on tourism industry revenues in Spain. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the Bureau van Dijk's...

This study investigates factors shaping FDI inflows in the MENA region from 1996 to 2021, employing static and dynamic panel data models. A composite institutional quality index, created via Principal Component Analysis, reveals a positive long-term effect on FDI. However, voice and...

Das Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Regionen und Wasserwirtschaft ist unmittelbar für 13 höhere und mittlere Bildungs- und Forschungseinrichtungen in Österreich verantwortlich, und zwar für eine Fachschule, fünf Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalten, sechs Höhere...

For several decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have offshored their manufacturing activities to low-cost countries to achieve significant productivity gains. However, changes in the relative competitiveness of countries, social effects of deindustrialization in advanced economies and the...

While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models with an impact on sustainability, some technologies, especially blockchain applications, are often criticized for harming the environment, e.g. due to high energy demand. In our study, we present a novel approach...

Objective: The objective of the article was to identify how various forms of information distortion influence foreign direct investment (FDI) location choices and location attractiveness perception. We focused on geopolitical factors that have been known to be an antecedent for FDI location...

Zusätzliche Investitionen von 57 Milliarden Euro würden bis 2033 entstehen, wenn die Körperschaftsteuer in Deutschland in fünf Schritten um insgesamt fünf Prozentpunkte gesenkt würde. Eine Simulation durch das IW Köln identifiziert auch Gewinne für die Arbeitnehmer.

This paper examines how municipal taxes respond to the local impact of a labor market shock. The analysis exploits a commuting policy that liberalized cross-border labor markets between Switzerland and the EU. The reform was implemented at a time of skilled labor shortages and led to a...

Die Studie schreibt Indikatoren zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen, zur hochschulischen Bildung sowie zur individuellen und betrieblichen Weiterbildung fort. Bei der Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen zeichnet sich Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich durch einen eher...

The effect of regulation on a dominant firm to protect fringe firms in a local market -- Corporate taxation and regional economic development in Japan: A panel analysis of prefectural-level data -- Economies of scale and culmulative causation -- Firms' human resource management for local economy...

The Region of Peloponnese shows economic and labour market strengths, with small and family businesses key to the economic and social fabric of the region. Its strong transportation connectedness is conducive to attracting investors, while its outstanding cultural capital benefits both residents...

Asturias is undergoing a transition from its historical role as a mining and steelmaking hub, with the emerging green energy sector offering new opportunities for growth. At the same time, the region exhibits substantial territorial imbalances between its central metropolitan area which...

This policy paper brings together key insights on regional attractiveness. It highlights a window of opportunity for regions to attract green and strategic FDI and presents good practices for attracting investments that support regional development objectives. Such objectives may also include...

​Supported by the European Commission, the OECD Rethinking Regional Attractiveness programme helps policy makers understand how their regions can better attract talent, investors, and visitors in today's changing world. The programme's regional case studies provide a snapshot of participating...

​Supported by the European Commission, the OECD Rethinking Regional Attractiveness programme helps policy makers understand how their regions can better attract talent, investors, and visitors in today's changing world. The programme's regional case studies provide a snapshot of participating...

Supported by the European Commission, the OECD Rethinking Regional Attractiveness programme helps policy makers understand how their regions can better attract talent, investors, and visitors in today's changing world. The regional case studies conducted by the OECD under this programme provide...

Die Studie zu Bildung und Qualifikation wird 2022 als Kurzstudie vorgelegt. Sie enthält wie in den Vorjahren die zentralen Indikatoren zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen im internationalen Vergleich. Erneut zeigt sich, dass der Anteil der Erwerbstätigen mit formal hohen...

In recent times, local governments and policymakers in Korea have been strongly interested in sustainable growth or job creative growth locally, but how? The purpose of this study was to expand our understanding of the relationship between regional economic growth and the local characteristics...

Deutschland wird beim Strom zu einer Hochpreisinsel. Importrisiken bei Energie verschlechtern die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Landes. Gerade für energieintensive Branchen wird der Standort sehr unattraktiv. Zu diesen drei Ergebnissen kommt eine neue Preis- und Risiko-Analyse vom ZEW Mannheim und...

For a long time, it was assumed that hard location factors (e.g. workforce, land) were the primary influence on the location decisions of firms. In the course of the tertiarization of the economy and linked increases in the qualification of employees as well as changes in values and timemodels,...

In the international business (IB) literature, “location advantages” or “locational advantages” (henceforth the latter) are commonly discussed by reference to one of two prominent IB frameworks, either the OLI paradigm of Dunning or the FSA–CSA matrix originally presented by Rugman and...

Der Standortvergleich wird im Auftrag der Stiftung Familienunternehmen seit 2006 alle zwei Jahre durch das ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung erhoben. Basis sind internationale und nationale Statistiken. Diese werden daraufhin geprüft, in welchem Umfang ein Standort...

Examining the relationship between factor endowments and production patterns using international and Japanese regional data, we provide the first empirical confirmation of Ethier's correlation approach to the Rybczynski theorem. Moreover, we find evidence of substantial production indeterminacy....

The article is devoted to identifying the features of Warsaw as a global city and its role in attracting transnational economic factors to Poland on the example of foreign direct investments. According to theoretical views on the role of global cities, it is they that provide the localization of...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...

This paper studies corporate taxation in a model where foreign investment of firms may affect the profitability of the investor firm's domestic activities. In this framework, corporate taxes distort the quality, not just the quantity of foreign direct investment flows. High-tax countries may see...

Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...

Market size and growth rates, per capita income, distance from the United States, and tax rates on U.S. affiliates accounted for about half the variation among developing host countries in most aspects of U.S. FDI activity. Residuals from the equations for one period add greatly to the...