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Reading the Jeger, Haegler and Theiss paper reminded me of an incident a couple of years ago. The economic research department at UBS had been asked to survey the reasons why Swiss firms chose to invest in Texas. After reviewing the literature and talking with half a dozen of firms that had recently made such investments — and getting few sensible answers — we began to question instead why UBS itself had established a presence in this “financial center” back in 1980.
The author would like to thank Dr. William Gasser for substantial input in this paper.
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Buomberger, P. (1992). Comment on Matthias Jeger, Urs Haegler, Roland Theiss: “On the Attractiveness of International Financial Centers”. In: Blattner, N., Genberg, H., Swoboda, A. (eds) Competitiveness in Banking. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48846-7_15
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