Business Location Decisions in the United States: Estimates of the Effects of Unionization, Taxes, and Other Characteristics of States
使用条件logit模型分析美国新工厂选址如何受工会化、税收等州特征影响，发现工会同情度影响显著，税收也有一定作用，挑战了传统观点。
This article examines how corporate decisions about the location for a new manufacturing plant in the U.S. are influenced by unionization, taxes, and other characteristics of states. The conditional logit model is used with some modifications to make the model more applicable to the business location decision. The most important finding is that the union sympathies of states have a major effect on business location. The results also indicate that state taxes affect business location, contradicting the conventional wisdom in the economic literature, although the tax effect is of modest magnitude.