Damian Whittard Damian2.Whittard@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Policy & Practice in Economics
Why do foreign firms invest in south west England?
Whittard, Damian; Webber, Don J.
Authors
Don Webber Don.Webber@uwe.ac.uk
Abstract
Regional Development Agencies compete to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) that generate economic benefits. This paper seeks to identify factors that attract FDI to the South West region of the UK. The results suggest that the South West’s average wage levels, population density, unemployment rate, physical infrastructure expenditure, growth and the relative dominance of the manufacturing sector all contribute to the multinational enterprise’s decision to locate to the South West. The amount of defence spending is also found to be a determinant, suggesting that the defence sector might be an attractor of FDI. These results are endorsed by a separate survey analysis.
Citation
Whittard, D., & Webber, D. J. (2006). Why do foreign firms invest in south west England?
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2006 |
---|---|
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Working Paper |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Keywords | FDI, south west england |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1045639 |
Files
FDI South West.pdf
(444 Kb)
PDF
You might also like
Regional Growth Paths and Resilience: A European Analysis
(2018)
Journal Article
Achieving wider impact in business and management: analysing the case studies from REF 2014
(2017)
Journal Article
Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region
(2017)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About UWE Bristol Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@uwe.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search