Foreign Manufacturing Investment in the Rural U.S. South and Midwest

From 1970 to 1986, the dollar volume of foreign manufacturing (direct) investment in the US increased by a factor of sixteen. From 1980 to 1986, more than 15 percent of this investment was in rural counties of the US South and Midwest. Why and how? Dr. Luker's is a unique type of industrial location analysis that uses both continuous and nominal data in a discrete choice model setting. At the policy level, it asks, at least in this period, whether new plants in rural areas were located in non-metro locales that were significantly different from existing manufacturing facilities purchased by foreign-owned producers.

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Dr. Luker has been a practicing economics professional for more than three decades. His teaching, research, writing, and consulting have focused on the areas of spatial economics, labor economics, political economy, and applied econometrics. He lives and works in Northern New Mexico and the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metropolitan Area.