Welfare effects of foreign direct investment: Cost saving vs. Signaling

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-43

  Mukherjee, Arijit ^a   Broll, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Freigh direct investment; International trade; Multinational firm; Signaling; Trade cost; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846503364     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-006-0224-4     Document Type: Article

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