Supplementary Web Appendix With Data and Programs for

“An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade”

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy

by

Thomas J. Holmes (University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and NBER)

and

John J. Stevens (Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System)

October 2013

Note: The statistics reported in this paper that were derived from Census Bureau micro data were screened to ensure that they do not disclose confidential information.  The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve System, or the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

1. Supplementary Tables

• Detailed Industry-Level Estimates for Stage 1 (An Expanded Version of Tables 4 and 5 of Paper)

o 1997 Sorted by NAICS, 1997 Sorted by Distance Elasticity

o 1992 Sorted by SIC, 1992 Sorted by Distance Elasticity

• Detailed Industry-Level Estimates for Stage 2 (An Expanded Version of Table 6 of Paper)

2.  Link to Data Sets and Programs (This link contains all the public data and programs used to create various tables of the paper.)

3.  Additional Materials Referenced in the Paper

This document contains:

• The proof of Part (ii) of Proposition 1.
• A motivation of the way we constructed our measure of internal distance (referenced in Appendix B).
• An analysis of the issue of wholesaling and local shipments in the use of CFS data.
• Details about how we calculate the mean location quotients reported in Tables 1 and 2