Foreign direct investment, competition and industrial development in the host country

European Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1761-1784

  Barrios, Salvador ^a   Görg, Holger ^b   Strobl, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Firm entry; Foreign direct investment; Industrial development; Semi parametric estimations; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 24044538248     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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