Regional production adjustments to import competition. Evidence from French agro-industry

Corinne Bagoulla (1) , Emmanuelle Chevassus-Lozza (2) , Karine Daniel (2, 3) , Carl Gaigné (4)

1 LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique
2 LERECO CEDRAN - Laboratoire d'Études et de Recherches en Economie
3 ESA - Ecole supérieure d'Agricultures d'Angers
4 SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires

This paper evaluates the impact of increasing imports on the reallocation of agrifood production across regions within countries. From French data for the period 1995–2002, we show that regional agrifood production adjusts differently to increasing imports according to the region where the agrifood firms are located. Even though proximity to consumers is important, an increase in agrifood imports does not increase agrifood production with a high demand but makes low-wage regions more attractive. In addition, an increase in imports of agricultural products processed by agrifood firms leads to the reallocation of agrifood production away from regions with good agricultural access and toward those with limited access to agricultural products.

Mots clés: agrifood industry; location; trade openness; industrie agroalimentaire; international trade; economic competition

Mots clés: france; europe; commerce international; concurrence économique

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Corinne Bagoulla, Emmanuelle Chevassus-Lozza, Karine Daniel, Carl Gaigné. Regional production adjustments to import competition. Evidence from French agro-industry. [University works] auto-saisine. 2010, 24 p. ⟨hal-01462613⟩