Location decisions of heterogeneous European firms

Autores/as

  • Josep Marti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.9.3.2020.265-269

Resumen

We analyze empirically how firms’ characteristics affect the foreign affiliates location decisions of heterogeneous firms in different markets. Using a European firm-level data and estimating the marginal effects for the multinomial logit model, the results corroborate the relevance of firms’ characteristics in their investment decisions, particularly the productivity level.

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2020-12-13

Cómo citar

Marti, J. (2020). Location decisions of heterogeneous European firms. Economics and Business Letters, 9(3), 265–269. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.9.3.2020.265-269