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Title: Agglomeration, Backward and Forward Linkages: Evidence from South Korean Investment in China

Author(s): Peter Debaere, Joonhyung Lee and Myungho Paik

Publication Date: December 2008

Keyword(s): agglomeration and multinationals

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: With a firm-level dataset, we study the location decision of all South Korean multinationals across China's regions between 1992 and 2004, taking into account spatial aspects. Our conditional logit estimates confirm previous studies that stress the agglomeration effects along industry and along national lines in firms' location choice. In particular, South Korean investors target the place where there are more firms irrespective of their nationality and, at the same time, more affiliates from South Korean multinationals. More importantly, we decompose these agglomeration effects into a pure agglomeration effect and 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 there. At the same time, however, backward and forward linkages with the companies irrespective of their nationality do not seem to matter. As such, our analysis of investors' location choice brings together two perspectives: (backward and forward) linkages and agglomeration along national lines.

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Debaere, P, Lee, J and Paik, M. 2008. 'Agglomeration, Backward and Forward Linkages: Evidence from South Korean Investment in China'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7079