Klier, Thomas; McMillen, Daniel P. - In: Journal of Regional Science 48 (2008) 1, pp. 245-267
Using nonparametric descriptive tools developed by Duranton and Overman (2005, "Review of Economic Studies", 72, 1077-1106), we show that both new and old auto supplier plants are highly concentrated in the eastern United States. Conditional logit models imply that much of this concentration can...