Andrea Ascani
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Economic Geography | 2016
Andrea Ascani; Riccardo Crescenzi; Simona Iammarino
This paper investigates how the location behaviour of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is shaped by the economic institutions of the host countries. The analysis covers a wide set of geographically proximate economies with different degrees of integration with the ‘Old’ 15 European Union (EU) members: New Member States, Accession and Candidate Countries, as well as European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries and the Russian Federation. The paper aims to shed new light on the heterogeneity of MNE preferences for the host countries’ regulatory settings (including labour market and business regulation), legal aspects (i.e. protection of property rights and contract enforcement) and the weight of the government in the economy. By employing data on 6,888 greenfield investment projects, the random-coefficient Mixed Logit analysis here applied shows that, while the quality of the national institutional framework is generally beneficial for the attraction of foreign investment, MNEs preferences over economic institutions are highly heterogeneous across sectors and business functions.
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy | 2016
Andrea Ascani; Riccardo Crescenzi; Simona Iammarino
This article aims to investigate the economic integration between the European Union and its neighbouring countries by exploring the location drivers of Italian Multinational Enterprises in 33 destination countries including the New Member States of the European Union and the European Neighbouring Countries. The article compares market- and efficiency-seeking motivations with asset-seeking strategies. The analysis is based on a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative analysis assesses the location determinants of 518 Italian Multinational Enterprises that invested in the area in the years 2003–2008, whereas qualitative information on strategic location decisions is collected by means of in-depth interviews with executives in two of the largest Italian Multinational Enterprises active in the region. Market-seeking considerations are still predominant drivers of location decisions in European Union Neighbouring Countries together with resource-seeking motivations. However, different Multinational Enterprises develop diversified strategies to increase their access to these areas, which are of increasing interest for global investors.
Review of Regional Research: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft | 2015
Andrea Ascani; Luisa Gagliardi
Journal of Economic Geography | 2017
Andrea Ascani
Cambridge Journal of Economics | 2018
Andrea Ascani; Simona Iammarino
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie | 2017
Andrea Ascani; Riccardo Crescenzi; Simona Iammarino
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie | 2017
Andrea Ascani
Archive | 2017
Julia Black; Cornelia Woll; Sara B. Hobolt; Christopher Wratil; Niamh Moloney; Edmund-Philipp Schuster; Danuta Hübner; Samuel Fankhauser; Maria Carvalho; Simona Iammarino; Andrea Ascani; Iain Begg; Paul De Grauwe; Tony Travers; Jennifer Jackson-Preece
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics | 2016
Andrea Ascani; Riccardo Crescenzi; Simona Iammarino