Corporate tax rates and foreign direct investment in the United States

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-117

  Wijeweera, Albert ^a   Dollery, Brian ^a   Clark, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; TAX SYSTEM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845542323     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500447872     Document Type: Article

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