Proximity and Investment: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Proximity to plants makes it easier for headquarters to monitor and acquire information about plants. In this article, I estimate the effects of headquarters’ proximity to plants on plant-level investment and productivity. Using the introduction of new airline routes as a source of exogenous variati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giroud, Xavier
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87688
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-4151