Preference Heterogeneity and Industrial Location

What attracts foreign investors to a Chinese province over another? Are thereheterogeneous prefernces in those location decisions? This book presents anempirical investigation on Japanese investors' location choices in China andtheir heterogeneous preferences in those choices. Special attention is paid tothe evolution of Japanese investors' location choices with respect to China'srecent reorientation of its economic development strategy from its easterncoastal region to its western interior area. This study timely informs policymakers on the evaluation of the effectiveness of policies previously adoptedin this reorientation and on the development of future policy recommendations.This book also provides a systematic methodological approachto detect and verify preference variations in Japanese plant location decisions.This book is addressed to professionals and also serve as general reading forstudens in regional science and locaion analysis FDI China's economicdevelopment and policy analysis.