Financial and political risks in US direct foreign investment

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 559-575

  Click, Reid W ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct foreign investment; Financial risk assessment; Global vs multinational capital allocation; Political risk assessment; Random effects estimation of panel data; Residual analysis; Return on assets (ROA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944460677     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400157     Document Type: Review

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