Download or read book Multiregional Firms and Region Switching in the US Manufacturing Sector written by Antoine Gervais and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses data on U.S. manufacturing establishments to study the spatial real- location of resources that takes place within surviving firms as they open and close establishments in different regions. To motivate the empirical analysis, I extend existing models of industry dynamics to include production-location decisions within firms. The empirical results provide support for the mechanisms emphasized by the theoretical model. In the data, only about 3 percent of firms make the same product in more than one region, but these multiregional firms are more productive on average compared to single-region firms and account for a disproportionate share of output. The empirical results also show that “region switching” is pervasive among multiregional firms and is correlated with changes in firm and firm-region characteristics.