URL:
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http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/390
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URN:
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-3904
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Document Type:
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Working paper
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Year of publication:
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2002
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
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MADOC publication series:
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Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Classification:
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JEL:
R12 C30 F15 F2 ,
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Subject headings (SWD):
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Europäische Union , Regionalwirtschaft , Sektorale Wirtschaftsstruktur , Investition
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Abstract:
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This study analyses relative sectoral investment patterns in EU regions. In an exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial clusters of high relative investments can be identified for some sectors. In the econometric analysis, we control for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity and find that investments in manufacturing sectors are attracted by central regions, investments in services sectors, instead, by administrative centres as well as regions far away from their national administrative centre. A higher local level of sectoral economies of scale and of productivity strongly increases investments in manufacturing sectors. Labour cost differentials, however, are insignificant in explaining the location of relative sectoral investments.
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