The determinants of location choice of South Korean FDI in China |
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Authors: | Sung Jin Kang Hong Shik Lee |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Economics, Korea University, Anam-Dong, Sungbuk-Ku, Seoul 136-705, Republic of Korea;bKorea Institute for International Economic Policy, Yeomgok-dong, Seoul 137-747, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | By using extensive and unique firm-level data for South Korean foreign affiliates in China, we investigated the determinants of location choice for South Korean multinational companies. South Korean companies are unevenly distributed inside China with more than 60 percent of their affiliates being located in the three northeast regions. Using conditional logit estimation, we found that market size and government policies approximated by economic zones, quality of labor, and transport infrastructure play a positive role in deciding location. On the other hand, labor costs, inner waterways, and distance show negative and significant coefficients. Finally, the model specification is shown to be robust to possible violation of the assumption of identical independent error terms. Some of the estimation results stand in contrast to those of other studies on the determinants of FDI stock flows from the world or Japan. |
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Keywords: | Foreign direct investment (FDI) South Korea China Conditional logit estimation |
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