This Paper studies the determinants of location choice by foreign investors in France. A new sample of almost 4000 location choices over ten years and 92 administrative locations is used to measure two important issues: To what extent do foreign investors cluster spatially and are the...

This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and...

[spa] La localizaciôn en el extranjero de las empresas multinacionales. Un enfoque de economia geogrâfica jerarquizada aplicado a las empresas japonesas en Europa La decision de localizaciôn de una empresa multinacional puede describirse como una secuencia de decisiones . geogrâficas en la...

This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and...

The location choices of foreign direct investment within the European Union are increasingly seen as “location tournaments” between countries willing to attract firms. The spatial organization of these multinational firms has become a very sensitive topic. Within this context, we study the...

Empirical investigation of the quality interpretation of the Melitz (2003) model of firm heterogeneity and trade has been limited by the lack of direct data on quality. This paper matches firm-level export data with expert assessments of the quality of champagne producers to estimate the key...

Investigations of the effect of quality differences on heterogeneous performance in exporting have been limited by lack of direct measures of quality. We examine exports of French wine, matching the exporting firms to producer ratings from two wine guides. We show that high quality producers...