Acta Oeconomica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 69: Issue S2
A Study of Regional-Level Location Factors of Car Manufacturing Companies in the EU*
Authors:
Ottó Csíki MSc student at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics and Business Administration in Hungarian Language, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Réka Horváth Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in Hungarian Language, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Levente Szász Corresponding author. Vice Dean and Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics and Business Administration in Hungarian Language, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Pages:
13–39
Online Publication Date:
Dec 2019
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2019
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2019.69.s2.2
Keywords:
location; regional competitiveness; automotive industry; EU; R12; O18; M11; M16
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The paper aims to explore how factors of regional competitiveness are associated with the location of car manufacturing companies in the EU. Although the European automotive market can be characterized by an intense dynamics in terms of location choices, literature offers little empirical guidance on how regional factors influence the location of car manufacturers in the EU. This paper aims to fill this gap by combining regional competitiveness data on 276 EU regions with the actual location of all 269 production units of car manufacturing companies currently present in the EU. Logistic regression is used to discover significant relationships, while the comparative analysis of clusters of regions is meant to offer a more detailed understanding of the role of different location factors. Results of the analysis show that the most influential location factor is related to infrastructural development, but other competitiveness factors, such as regional innovation capabilities or labour market efficiency, might also play an important role.

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Acta Oeconomica Periodical of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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  • Dóra Benedek, International Monetary Fund
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  • László Csaba, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and Central European University, Austria
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  • Péter Halmai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and National University of Public Service, Hungary
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  • Michael Landesmann, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
  • Péter Mihályi, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
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Acta Oeconomica
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