Platform investments and volatile exchange rates: Direct investment in the U.S. by Japanese electronic companies

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-231

  Kogut, Bruce ^a   Chang, Sea Jin ^a  

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EID: 0040304756     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2109924     Document Type: Article

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