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Agglomeration, Adjustment, and State Policies in the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States

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  • Gustavo J. Bobonis

    (Department of Economics, University of Toronto)

  • Howard J. Shatz

    (RAND Corporation)

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Using U.S. state-level data we show that agglomeration externalities influence the level of foreign-invested capital in a location. Our empirical model allows the separation of agglomeration effects from the rate of capital stock adjustment, two forces that previous research has conflated. We estimate an agglomeration elasticity of investment of 0.11 to 0.15 with respect to same-source-country investment, lower than previous estimates. We also investigate the influence of state policies and find that although general investment incentives do not affect the location of FDI, targeted policies such as unitary taxation and state foreign offices influence investment. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Article provided by MIT Press in its journal The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Volume (Year): 89 (2007)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 30-43

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  3. Torfinn Harding & Beata Javorcik, 2012. "Investment Promotion and FDI Inflows: Quality Matters," Economics Series Working Papers 612, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  4. Eckhardt Bode & Peter Nunnenkamp & Andreas Waldkirch, 2012. "Spatial effects of foreign direct investment in US states," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 45(1), pages 16-40, February.
  5. Feld, Lars P. & Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich, 2008. "FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study," ZEW Discussion Papers 08-128, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research.
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  9. Bode, Eckhardt & Nunnenkamp, Peter, 2010. "Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Regional Development in Developed Countries? A Markov Chain Approach for US States," Open Access publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy info:hdl:10419/40022, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
  10. Harding, Torfinn & Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, 2007. "Developing economies and international investors : do investment promotion agencies bring them together ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4339, The World Bank.
  11. Holger Görg & Aoife Hanley & Eric Strobl, 2009. "Creating backward linkages from multinationals: Is there a role for financial incentives?," Kiel Working Papers 1554, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
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  13. Arazmuradov, Annageldy, 2011. "Foreign aid, foreign direct investment and domestic investment nexus in landlocked economies of Central Asia," MPRA Paper 36881, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 23 Feb 2012.

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