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In the globalized economy, a firm that is planning to establish a new factory must pay attention to new factors that were not previously recognized as a location factor: corporation tax and interest rates. In addition, a firm comes to consider a new function that works between factories located in different countries, the function of the transfer price of the intermediate goods. Taking corporation tax rates and the transfer price into consideration, this chapter explains how a firm determines a new factory’s location in a large geographical area. In the explanation, some chaotic phenomena are used, and the usefulness of the phenomenon in a firm’s location selections is clarified..
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Ishikawa (2009) analyzes the firm’s location in the three detentions by using chaotic phenomena.
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The phenomenon shown in Fig. 5.2 is a chaos or a result of Cauchy Convergence occurring in the calculation. The issue to identify this phenomenon is not discussed here because this problem does not affect the logical development in this article.
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The factory’s location is affected by the interest rates as well as the corporation tax rates. A location power of the interest rates of countries has been clarified by Ishikawa (2014).
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Appendix: Equations Used in the Gradient Dynamics
Appendix: Equations Used in the Gradient Dynamics
The terms of ∂Y/∂x, ∂Y/∂y, and ∂Y/∂mp contained in Eqs. 5.15a, 5.15b, and 5.15c are shown by following Eqs. 5.A1, 5.A2, and 5.A3:
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Ishikawa, T. (2015). Effects of Corporation Tax Rates on Factory Locations Through the Function of the Transfer Price. In: Ishikawa, T. (eds) Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55366-3_5
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