Agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment: A meta‐analysis
这篇元分析研究了集聚经济对外商直接投资区位选择的影响，发现国内活动产生的集聚效应最强，而外国活动产生的效应仅在与投资者母国相关时才显著，且平均效应不受发表偏倚影响。
Abstract This paper undertakes a meta‐analysis of the effect of agglomeration economies on foreign direct investment (FDI) location. It finds strong differences in these economies arising from both measurement and study‐specific characteristics. Economies generated from domestic rather than foreign activity have the strongest effects on FDI, with the latter only significant if related to the home country of the investor. Support is also found for studies that identify different sources of agglomeration economies, although this is largely underexplored in the empirical literature. The average agglomeration economies estimate is not influenced by publication bias and indicates genuine effects for agglomeration economies on FDI location choice.