Firms Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy [Paperback]

This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting. The theoretical and empirical analyses examine the influence of the transfer pricing system, corporate tax rates, and a countrys industrial structure on a firms decision to locate and the impact of firms location on regional economic activities. The theoretical analysis elucidates the importance of the above-mentioned factors in the firms selection of possible location. The empirical analysis uses as an example the case of a supply chain in East Asia. The empirical analysis is illustrated with the regional/spatial development experiences at the country level and city level of selected countries and cities. The analysis offers a perspective for understanding the spatial patterns of a cross-border production system.

Part I?Restructuring agglomeration to spatial production network (1 Firm location and agglomeration economies: Daisuke Nakamura.- 2 Fragmentation of production process due to growth and survival competition: Toshiharu Ishikawa.- 3 Supply chain, transportation, and spatial risk: Tatsuaki Kuroda.- 4 Formation of supply chains in East Asia: Yutaka Yamada)
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Part II?? New location factors in global economy (5 Effects of the corporation tax rates on factorys location through the function of the transfer price: Toshiharu Ishikawa.- 6 The Impact of transfer pricing regulations on the location decisions of MNEs: Junpei Itoh and Yoshimasa Komoriya.- 7 International comparison of corporate taxation systems: Masahiro Shinohara
8 Features of industrial and economic structure as factors for firms Location selections: an analysis of ASEAN countries: Mitsuhiro Hayashi)

Part III Regional economic policies in global economy (9 The role of cities in Nordic regional development policy: ló©