Location incentives and inter-state competition for FDI: Bidding wars in the automotive industry

Governance, Multinationals and Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 297-324

  Molot, Maureen Appel ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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