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...

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...

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....