How home and host country industrial policies affect investment location choice? The case of Chinese investments in the EU solar and wind industries

The paper explores the influences played by asymmetries between European and Chinese incentive policies in renewable energy sources (RES) on location choice of Chinese investments in the EU. In the last decade, while EU countries relied on demand-oriented policies in the RES, China has been directly promoting supply-side interventions to support the domestic production of components. We advance the literature on determinants of Chinese...