Policy competition for foreign direct investment between asymmetric countries

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1891-1907

  Bjorvatn, Kjetil ^a   Eckel, Carsten ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foreign direct investment; Policy competition; Welfare

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; FINANCIAL POLICY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; TRADE; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 33745277163     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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