集聚效应对跨国公司在华区位选择的影响

本文以跨国公司区位选择微观理论为基础,利用条件Logit模型,对2007年《财富》世界500强中,1995年到2007年期间,457家美国子公司和537家欧洲子公司在华个体区位选择决定因素进行了实证分析。分析结果表明,集聚效应是样本公司区位选择的重要决定因素,在华投资的欧美制造业公司普遍采用"集聚"这一战略,其子公司大量集聚在东部地区,盲目吸收外资来缩小东—西部经济发展不平衡的政策并不合适,尤其是中部地区。因此,在文章末,本文对中国政府应该如何减小区域经济发展不平衡和合理引用外资提出了建议。

The Impacts of Agglomeration on MNE's Location Choice in China

Based on the micro location theory of multinational firms(MNEs),and using the database of U.S.and European MNEs listing in "2007 Fortune 500 ",this paper conducts Conditional Logit estimations to test empirically the main determinants of individual location choices conducted by 457 U.S.affiliates and 537 European affiliates within China overthe period 1995—2007.The results present that agglomeration is the preferred strategy of the firms in our sample and their affiliates are highly agglomerated in the eastern region.The policy of using FDI as a remedy for reducing the East-Westregional economic development gap seems not appropriate,especially in the Central region.Thus,at the end of paper,based on the results obtained,we give our advices to China's government for reducing the regional economic development gap and using FDI rationally in lagging regions.