Mediating factors and spillover effects of foreign direct investment : Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms.

The present study examines the extent and direction of horizontal, backward and forward spillover effects of FDIs on firms' productivity. It also shows how the mediating factors (firm's age, export and import intensity, R&D and advertisement intensity) contribute to the firms' productivity. Further, the study also uncovers the importance of the ownership patterns of the firms that affect the spillovers.

Solvent Effect on the Potential Energy Surfaces of the F + CHCHBr Reaction.

Although substantial work has been undertaken on reaction pathways involved in base-promoted elimination reactions and bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction of F on CHCHX (X = Cl, Br, I), the effect of solvents with varying dielectric constants on the stereochemistry of each of the reaction species involved across the reaction profile have not yet been clearly understood. The present investigation reports the effect of solvents on the potential energy surfaces (PES) and structures of the species appearing in the reaction pathway of F with bromoethane. The PESs in the gas phase have been computed at MP2 level and CCSD(T) level.