Altered States: Taxes and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in America

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1076-1094

  Hines Jr , James R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NBER ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT PATTERN; TAX INCENTIVE;

USA;

EID: 0030418384     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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