The impact of special economic zones on export behaviour: evidence from polish firm-level data:

Nazarczuk, Jarosław Michał; Umiński, Stanisław

doi:10.15240/tul/001/2018-3-001

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“…FDIs' export orientation (Nazarczuk & Umiński, 2018b) in locational decisions, fits into the general picture of regional inequalities, observed in Poland, by selecting more desirable places located closer to national and foreign destination markets (city agglomerations/metropolises) with good transport accessibility (Nazarczuk & Umiński, 2018a).…”

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Local determinants of foreign direct investment in Poland: the role of relative distance

Nazarczuk

Krajewska

2018

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Research background: The increasing role of foreign direct investments (FDI) in global, national, regional, and local economies draws the public’s attention to the criteria utilised by foreign investors in undertaking locational decisions, owing to the mostly stimulating character of these kinds of investments. Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to identify the local determinants of FDI distribution. Particular attention is put on the role of distance to: (i) various transport endowments; (ii) next special economic zone; (iii) different national borders, among other motives studied in empirical papers. Methods: An important value added over the existing studies is the use of continuous variables representing distances (in km) to selected points of interest (e.g., airport) or minimum distances to lines (i.e., border, road) instead of dummy variables indicating whether particular infrastructure endowment is present in a region. The estimations were run in STATA 14.2 software with the use of a negative binomial approach. Findings & Value added: The results present new empirical evidence on FDI determinants witnessed at a local level of analysis (LAU 1), fitting into the other research done at a higher level of data aggregation (NUTS 2, NUTS 3), signalling high intra-regional inequalities and the role of: (i) relative distance to various infrastructure endowments; (ii) heterogeneous border effects; and (iii) the importance of close proximity to special economic zones. Given the presence of counties’ auto selection process (i.e., better developed, endowed, urbanised, favourably located) done by FDI investors, we formulate universal implications in terms of FDI promotion policy.

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Local determinants of foreign direct investment in Poland: the role of relative distance

Nazarczuk

Krajewska

2018

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“…The available analyses refer to operations of preferred areas, including SEZs, on selected markets, amongst others, in terms of support for entrepreneurship, concentration of economic activity within clusters (Zeng, 2011), economic growth (Litwack & Qian, 1998;Schrank, 2001;Zeng, 2010), acceleration of transformation processes (Ahrens & Meyer-Baudeck, 1995;Ge, 1999;Zeng, 2011), promotion of industrialisation in developing countries (Chaudhuri & Yabuuchi, 2010), inflow of investments (Cheng & Kwan, 2000), increase of employment (Curtis, Hill & Lin, 2006;Madani, 1999), development of export-oriented activities (Farole, 2011;Farole & Akinci, 2011;Johansson & Nilsson, 1997;Nazarczuk & Umiński, 2018b), support for economic openness (Baissac, 2011;Ge, 1999) and impact on local economies (Nazarczuk, 2013;Nazarczuk & Umiński, 2018a;Wang, 2013).…”

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Do operations in SEZs improve a firmâ€™s productivity? Evidence from Poland

Nazarczuk

2017

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Special economic zones (SEZs) play a significant role in global, national and regional trade flows. Given the insufficient number of empirical contributions regarding firm-level consequences of operation in SEZs, an analysis in which implications for firms' standings is undertaken. With the use of different estimation approaches, applied to a unique dataset comprising 155 SEZs firms and 155 non-SEZs firms (matched sample) obtained from various sources, the author investigates if SEZs firms obtain a competitive advantage through higher productivity compared to non-SEZs firms. The results prove that SEZ firms differ in this regard. However, the sign of its contribution is conditioned by the type of productivity analysed.

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“…The works of Nazarczuk and Uminski (2018) revealed the positive role of SEZs in relation to certain aspects of increasing the scale and structure of resident firms' export, relative to other companies. Any national economy, even under sanctions, can achieve a significant multiplier effect from foreign investment in production and business, even in limited-scale areas of the SEZ localization.…”

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confidence: 99%