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Cletus C. Coughlin, Joseph V. Terza, Vachira Arromdee, State Characteristics and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment within the United States, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Nov., 1991), pp. 675-683
Coughlin et al. (Fri,) studied this question.