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Clustering of Auto Supplier Plants in the U.S.: GMM Spatial Logit for Large Samples

In this paper, the authors model the location decisions of auto supplier plants using probit models that take explicit account of the tendency for auto plants to cluster together.
Despite the rapid change in the geographic configuration of the industry, we show that
three salient features remain the same.