Pension fund investments : an initial geographic assessment
Caisse de retraite ; Capitaux ; Disparités régionales ; Développement régional ; Etats-Unis ; Finance ; Flux financier ; Géographie humaine ; Investissement ; Modèle d'allocation ; State of Wisconsin Investment Board ; Sunbelt-Snowbelt ; Wisconsin
Impact des investissements des caisses de retraite, tant publiques que privées, sur le développement régional aux Etats-Unis. Etude de cas : State of Wisconsin Investment Board en 1983.
Struktura procesow inwestycyjnych a rozwoj regionalny The structure of investment processes and regional development
This paper presents a tentative outline for studies analyzing one of the fundamental proportions in the investment process-the relation between industrial and social investment. This relation is analysed in the framework of Polish experiences
A study on regional allocation of investments for redistribution policy of population
This paper presents the regional allocation model of public investments for the redistribution policy of population and one detailed simulation concentrating on the controllability of the degree of local autonomy. Its considers also the simple
The geographies of just-in-time: Japanese investment and the automotive components industry in Western Europe
Assembly line ; Car industry ; Europe ; European Union ; Foreign investment ; Industrial concentration ; Industry ; Investment ; Japaneses ; Location choice
Japanese investment in automobile production in North America and Western Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s posed some sharp questions about the future of domestically owned assemblers and automotive component companies. The paper examines
Transport investment and disadvantaged regions : UK and European policies since the 1950s
Europe ; Industrial region ; Investment ; Regional policy ; Road ; Transport ; Transport network ; Transport policy ; United Kingdom
This paper outlines transport investment policies for older industrial regions with higher unemployment. It examines the motivation behind such policies and compares them with transport policies for other regions. The growth of political
and economic competition between problem industrial regions and other regions of disadvantage or growth potential is emphasised. Transport investments cannot promote sustained growth in disadvantaged regions if other favourable conditions are lacking.
Venture capital formation, investment, and regional industrialization
Accessibility ; Economic flow ; High-tech industry ; Industrialization ; Investment ; Location ; Model ; Spatial concentration ; Technology ; United States ; Venture capital
The paper introduces metropolitan-level data on venture capital in the USA and develops statistical models for both the location of venture capital (supply) and the spatial distribution of investment (demand). Hig degrees of capital mobility operate
through a well-defined spatial structure. Specialized sources of capital supply are developing around established financial centers and centers of high-technology industry. Proximity is required to reduce uncertainty and minimize investment risk.
Foreign direct investment in Hungary : the effects on the modernization of the manufacturing industry and the demand for labor
Foreign investment ; Hungary ; Industry ; Investment ; Labour market ; Modernization ; Privatisation
in Hungary turned out to be successful. Partly as a result of foreign investments, Hungary has been able to integrate into the West European economy substantially, after being locked in the socialist spheres of influence for forty years. - (AGD)
Economic geographical assessment of investments: a development factor in regional development
Impact ; Investment ; Regional development ; Slovenia ; Spatial distribution
The paper presents some geographical characteristics of investment development in the first years of the 21st century, covering at least fragmentarily the gap in Slovenia’s economic geography. In the process we tried to draw attention
to the sporadic character and rapid developmental changes in economic geographical events within production systems. In the paper we focus on the geographical distribution of investments and their impacts on regional development. - (L'A.).