Shanghai Multinational Company Regional Headquarters And Its Economic Effect Analysis

Multinational corporation headquarters economy is the result of economicglobalization and regional economic integration development to a certain stage. Itseffect not only accelerates the development of multinational corporation, but alsopromote the regional economic. Thus, the headquarters economy has become animportant part of the city’s economic development strategy. Understanding fully thefactors of influencing multinational corporation regional headquarters’ location choice,creating a good investment environment, guiding and intervening appropriately theestablishment and type of multinational corporation headquarters in China, enhancingthe competitiveness of regional industry, promoting the regional economy sustainedgrowth is of great theoretical and practical significance.Shanghai, as one of cities of the high level development of multinationalcorporation headquarters economy, causes much attention of many researchers. Thispaper, in the perspective of multinational corporation headquarters economic effects,basing on explaining the theory of headquarters economy, examines the mainconsidered factors when multinational corporation headquarters make the choice oflocation, explores the Shanghai’s advantages in attracting regional headquartersgathering and the important strategic significance of developing headquarterseconomic to the central city. Then empirically tests the headquarters economic effectby the four parts of tax revenue effect, the industry, consumer driven effect,employment effect. This paper uses the leasing and business services to fit the scale ofShanghai headquarters economic and makes an empirical research. Finally makes thecorresponding thinking of how to perfect the policies of attracting the multinationalcorporation headquarters to Shanghai and puts forward corresponding suggestions.