Microeconometric empirical analysis of location choices by firms in globalizing Japan

我们对公司在日本的区位模式进行了实证分析，特别强调了生产率。我们对来自制造业普查的工厂层面数据进行的计量经济学分析表明，20世纪80年代的产业搬迁政策有效地将工厂从拥挤的核心地区迁至外围地区，但影响了工厂的生产率分布。我们发现，分布信息不是通过平均值或离散度来捕捉的，例如偏度，对于理解生产率和工厂位置之间的关系至关重要。

We empirically analyze firm’s location patterns in Japan with special emphasis on productivity. Our econometric analysis of plant-level data derived from manufacturing census shows that industrial relocation policies in the 1980s were effective in relocating plants out of congested core regions to peripheral regions but affected productivity distributions of plants. We find that distributional information not captured by mean or dispersion, such as skewness, is critical for understanding the relation between productivity and plant locations.