Location determinants of food manufacturers in the United States, 2000-2004: Are nonmetropolitan counties competitive?

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 617-630

  Lambert, Dayton M ^a   McNamara, Kevin T ^a  

^a 321 Morgan Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Firm location; Food manufacturing; Negative binomial regression; Spatial HAC; Spatial regimes

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; FOOD MARKET; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LABOR MARKET; LOCATION DECISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350448650     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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