This paper investigates why Japanese investors in the United States tend to locate foreign affiliates near concentrations of U.S. and Japanese establishments in their own industry. We hypothesize that the tendency to agglomerate varies according to attributes of industries, and our empirical...

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...