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Firm Location and the Creation and Utilization of Human Capital / Andres Almazan, Adolfo de Motta, Sheridan Titman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almazan, Andres.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10106.
- NBER working paper series no. w10106
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- This paper presents a theory of location choice that draws on insights from the incomplete contracts and investment flexibility (real option) literatures. We provide conditions under which human capital is more efficiently created and better utilized within industrial clusters that contain similar firms. Our analysis indicates that location choices are influenced by the extent to which training costs are borne by firms versus employees as well as by the uncertainty about future productivity shocks and the ability of firms to modify the scale of their operations. Extensions of our model consider, among other things, endogenous technological choices by firms in clusters and how behavioral biases (i.e., managerial overconfidence about their firms' prospects) can affect firms' location choices.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2003.
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