Direct foreign investment and expropriation incentives: A mitigating role for match-specific capital

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-59

  Choi, Yongjae ^a   Esfahani, Hadi Salehi ^a  

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EID: 0032011144     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1062-9769(99)80103-3     Document Type: Article

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