Broad trends in the regional dispersion, industrial composition, and source country of foreign investment in manufacturing branch plants over the 1977-1986 period are described. Regression analysis, with states as the unit of observation, is used to investigate the factors important to the...

This report responds to an urgent need. The flow of federal funds invested in the development of state education and workforce integrated data systems is scheduled to end state by state between now and 2016. Prospects for future federal investment in state data system integration will depend...

Designing appropriate import tariff rates is crucial for global trade. In this paper, we propose game-theoretic models to investigate how tariff policies affect the competition of multinational firms (MNFs) in a global trading environment. The MNFs sell substitutable products and compete in two...