Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260831 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9701
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight data can measure activity at such a granular level, using annual firm financial data and high-frequency data related to Covid-19 pandemic production shocks. We use this data to quantify the extent of misreported global operations of these car manufacturing firms and examine differences between sources of nightlight.
Subjects: 
multinational firms
nightlight data
global firm networks
JEL: 
H32
H26
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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