Foreign Investment in the Nonmetropolitan U.S. South and Midwest: A Case of Mimetic Location Behavior?

Bill Luker
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Bill Luker: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin, 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 537706 USA, bluker@ssc.wisc.edu

International Regional Science Review, 1998, vol. 21, issue 2, 163-184

Abstract: This study asks a basic question about foreign direct manufacturing investment (FDI) in the United States: are its location patterns really "foreign"? This question is motivated by the observation that rather than changing the geography of U.S. manufacturing, foreign manufacturers appear to be mimicking the location patterns of their domestically owned counterparts. A conditional logit procedure is used to analyze the reasons why foreign manufacturers have been attracted to nonmetropolitan counties of the South and Midwest. This analysis supports the case for a mimetic explanation of their location decisions.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1177/016001769802100204

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