Hard or soft? Institutional reforms and infrastructure spending as determinants of foreign direct investment in China

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 408-416

  Fung, K C ^a   Garcia Herrero, Alicia ^b   Iizaka, Hitomi ^a,c   Siu, Alan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BANCO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; JAPAN; KOREA; NORTH AMERICA; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745235523     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: 14685876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2005.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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