Description

A sample of 452 Japanese production units in Europe #'

Format

A dataframe containing :

• firm: the investment id,

• country: the country,

• region: the region (nuts1 nomenclature),

• choice: a dummy indicating the chosen region ,

• choice.c: the chosen country,

• wage: wage rate in the region,

• unemp: unemployment rate in the region,

• elig: is the country eligible to european subsidies,

• area: the area of the region,

• scrate: social charge rate (country level),

• ctaxrate: corporate tax rate (country level),

• gdp: regional gdp,

• harris: harris' market potential,

• krugman: krugman's market potential,

• domind: domestic industry count,

• japind: japan industry count,

• network: network count.

Source

kindly provided by Thierry Mayer

References

Head K, Mayer T (2004). “Market Potential and the Location of Japanese Investment in the European Union.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(4), 959-972. doi: 10.1162/0034653043125257, https://doi.org/10.1162/0034653043125257 , https://doi.org/10.1162/0034653043125257.