The authors model how state business incentives influence interstate relocation patterns of manufacturers using a panel (2000-2011) of 32 states. The National Establishment Time Series database and the Panel Database on Incentives and Taxes are used to study relocation by manufacturing establishments based on differences between the origin and destination states. The authors find that traditional factors associated with business climate, such as taxation and subsidies, statistically influence manufacturing interstate relocation. Further analysis shows that policy changes (e.g., increasing incentives and reducing taxes) to induce manufacturers to relocate may need to be infeasibly large or used in combination to evoke an economically meaningful increase in relocations.

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激励与公司迁移：一种州际比较方法

作者使用32个州的面板（2000-2011年）对州商业激励机制如何影响制造商的州际迁移模式进行建模。国家机构时间序列数据库和激励与税收小组数据库用于根据来源国和目的国之间的差异研究制造机构的搬迁。作者发现，与商业环境相关的传统因素，例如税收和补贴，在统计上影响着州际制造业的转移。进一步的分析表明，可能需要诱使制造商搬迁的政策变更（例如，增加激励措施和降低税收）不可行地大，或者结合使用，以引起搬迁的经济意义。