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Agglomération, liens en amont et liens en aval : résultats pour l'investissement sud coréen en Chine .
Author(s) -
Debaere Peter,
Lee Joonhyung,
Paik Myungho
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01582.x
Subject(s) - economic geography , multinational corporation , downstream (manufacturing) , linkage (software) , china , upstream (networking) , economies of agglomeration , nationality , geographical distance , upstream and downstream (dna) , investment (military) , foreign direct investment , logit , business , international trade , geography , economics , econometrics , economic growth , political science , marketing , macroeconomics , demography , finance , immigration , population , law , computer network , chemistry , archaeology , sociology , computer science , biochemistry , politics , gene
With a firm‐level data set, we study the location decision of South Korean multinationals across China's regions. Our conditional logit estimates confirm agglomeration effects along industry and along national lines. We add an upstream and downstream (backward and forward) linkage effect. We find that the presence of upstream and downstream South Korean affiliates significantly increases the likelihood that a South Korean multinational invests in a particular region. However, linkages that do not differentiate by nationality do not seem to matter much. As such, our analysis of investors' location choice brings together two perspectives: linkages and agglomeration along national lines.