In the November 1991 issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics, Cletus C. Coughlin, Joseph V. Terza, and Vachira Arromdee estimated conditional logit models of the factors affecting the locational choices of foreign direct investors in the manufacturing sector within the United States....

This study reports empirical evidence on existence value for beach nourishment. The focus is an analysis of respondents who intend to use the beach to be nourished and those who do not. Differences are found among the two groups, but not among categories of nonusers. An application of this...

University technology transfer activities are increasingly important as a source of regional economic development and revenue for the university. We use regression analysis, a two-stage model and the most recent data to examine the determinants of technology transfer. Our analysis strongly...

Using transaction level data, we present the first analysis of the way that foreign investors choose among different types of United States real estate. Our findings based on the conditional logit model analysis for the 1980-91 period are consistent with the hypothesis that foreign investors...

The results of our study support the rational behavior theory of political participation. An economic market exists for special interest campaign contributions. Campaign funds will be exchanged if money is important to election outcomes and there is a rate of return for political contributions...