The Impact of Trade and Investment Liberalization on Rural Manufacturing

Fabien Tondel, David Freshwater and Michael Reed

No 9711, 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Rural areas in the United States, like in other OECD countries, rely heavily on manufacturing as a source of income. Taking stock of previous studies on the impact of trade and FDI liberalization on manufacturing industries, this study presents a model with heterogeneous firms in the context of a country consisting of an urban and a rural regions. We examine how a manufacturing industry responds differently in the urban and the rural regions when the domestic economy becomes open to trade and investment with a foreign partner.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.9711

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