RT Journal Article
T1 The value of political geography: evidence from the redistricting of firms
A1 Richter, Brian Kelleher
A1 Timmons, Jeffrey F.
A1 Artes Caselles, Joaquín
A1 Motz, Nicolás Peer
AB We demonstrate that political geography has value to firms. We do so by exploiting shocks to political maps that occur around redistricting cycles in the United States. These shocks keep some firms in Congressional districts that are largely unchanged at one extreme and reassign other firms to largely different sets of constituents at the other extreme. Our main finding is that firms suffer from being reassigned into districts that are competitive across parties relative to safer districts. The effects are not trivial in magnitude. Moreover, they do not depend on whether firms retain the same politician or make campaign contributions.
PB The University of Chicago Press
SN 0022-2186
SN 1537-5285
YR 2025
FD 2025-05-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129765
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129765
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 mar 2026