No place like home? . location choice and firm survival after forced relocation in the German machine tool industry
We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry agglomerations attract further entrants. Relocating firms outperformed entrants that possessed no prior industry experience; apparently were able to build on their prewar capabilities. We find no evidence suggesting that firm performance benefited from agglomeration effects.
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2007
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Authors: | Buenstorf, Guido ; Guenther, Christina |
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Jena : Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics |
Subject: | Standortwahl | Lebenszyklus | Agglomerationseffekt | Werkzeugmaschinenbau | Deutschland (bis 1945) | DDR | Deutschland | Capabilities | agglomeration economies | location choice | firm survival | machine tool industry |
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freely available
Series: | Jena Economic Research Papers ; 2007,053 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 547171277 [GVK] hdl:10419/25619 [Handle] |
Classification: | L20 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior. General ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; R30 - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location. General |
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