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...

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...