Der inter- und intranationale Standortwettbewerb um Investoren ist in den letzten Jahren stärker geworden. Zur Identifizierung der bei einer Standortwahl zentralen Entscheidungskriterien hat das ifo Institut eine Unternehmensbefragung bei deutschen und ausländischen Muttergesellschaften...

Wie die Unternehmen der Musikwirtschaft ihre Geschäftslage beurteilen, welche Zukunftsperspektiven sie im Hinblick auf den EG-Binnenmarkt und die Öffnung der Märkte im Osten entwickeln, wie sie die Auswirkungen der Marktstrategien und -entwicklungen wichtiger Abnehmer und Anbieter in Fernost...

Im innerdeutschen Wettbewerb um Investoren haben die ostdeutschen Bundesländer noch zusätzlich mit der Konkurrenz der östlichen Nachbarstaaten zu kämpfen, die mit niedrigen Lohnkosten und hohen Investitionsanreizen Unternehmen in ihre Regionen locken. Die Positionierung Sachsens im...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...

In this article, we simulate the concentration process within the German dairy sector employing a sector?wide optimization model. As a result, we get cost minimizing structures of the dairy sector for various time horizons depending on varying levels of transportation costs. We show that the...

The location behaviour of modern multinational multi-plant firms appears to exhibitincreasingly a flexible mobility pattern with a strong tendency towards footlooseness. Thespatial-economic dynamics - often across the border - of such firms is sometimesencapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'....

In this paper we discuss a locational model with a profit-maximizing objective. The model can be illustrated by the followingsituation. There is a set of potential customers in a given region. A firm enters the market and wants to sell a certainproduct to this set of customers. The location and...

This paper analyses the relationship between spatial dynamics offirms and employment growth in the region. Moreover, it addresses thefacilitating or impeding role of (new) industrial sites in thegeographical process of firm and job dynamics, while recognising thatthe spatial dynamics of firms...

In a new economic geography framework with input-output linkages, this study analyses decisions made by foreign firms about their location within Hungary. These firm-to-firm contacts are modelled by creating several corporate customer and supplier access measures for all new foreign...