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Because of the process that firms many studies on the determinants of business location and use for site selection – first, broad regions, and then states the effectiveness of incentive programs in order to support or provinces within the selected area – it makes sense to the provincial government’s efforts to make the best use of limit the comparisons to geographically close competitors. [...] With which include the value they place on tions.9 For a region increasing the results of incentive programs leisure, and tends to overestimate the business grants by £100,000, the clouded with uncertainty, the benefit of the new jobs. [...] But The metrics are either the measurements used the long-term benefits could vastly a firm’s location decision in the estimations conducted by the authors, or slight modifications of those when the original outweigh the short-term costs. [...] In the density to exclude the less populated Northern areas of manufacturing sector, there is a one-to-one correlation between the number of existing plants and the probability of a new firm locating in a region: a one-percent increase in the number of existing plants increases the probability of a firm locating in a region by roughly one percent relative to an average region.13 Ontario has a clea [...] As the following sections 18 The adjacent region GDP per capita for a certain Some input costs in Ontario region is calculated as the sum of the GDP will show, public infrastructure per capita of each state and province in the spending in Ontario is generally lower are advantageous continuous North American continent divided by the distance between the reference state’s than in the competitor regi