Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24589 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 02-55
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Regional Specialisation
Sectoral Investments
Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
Cross-Section Time-Series Regressions
JEL: 
R12
C30
F15
F2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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