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| Juan Alcacer
Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment. Juan Alcacer, January 2013, Paper. "Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs…
| Juan Alcacer
Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies. Juan Alcacer, September 2009, Paper. "Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor, specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillover. These agglomeration economies offer potential advantage for firms, but research exploring their strategic implications is incomplete. Therefore, we develop a three-layer framework of why firms agglomerate…