The Location Choices of Manufacturing Plants

• Main Authors: Chi-Mei Shui, 水啟梅
• Other Authors: Hsiang-Po Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13565267866825909636

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 都市計劃學系碩博士班 === 94 === 　The present research investigates the location choices of manufacturing plants that began operations between 1997 and 2001. Empirical results, estimated from Poisson regression model, indicate that when a township is closer to the freeway interchange and regional market area, has lower industrial land tax and a larger pool of industrial estate, with more various industrial structures and manufacturing concentration etc., then it will have more new plants. 　The present research also classifies the manufacturing industry into four categories: urban labor, urban technology, local resources, and basic resources manufacturing industries and investigates the location factors as well as their effects on each manufacturing industry. By using the significant location factors and the random utility maximization probability model to predict the investment probabilities, Tainan city gets the largest investment probability, and Sinjhung city gets the second largest one. The prediction almost matches the reality, suggesting that the study picks up the right explanatory variables that influence the location choices of new plant births.