Foreign direct investment: Flows, volatility, and the impact on growth

Review of International Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 478-493

  Lensink, Robert ^b   Morrissey, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MODEL; PANEL DATA;

EID: 33745587292     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: 14679396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2006.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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