The role of the efficiency gap for spillovers from FDI: Evidence from the UK electronics and engineering sectors

Open Economies Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-232

  Girma, Sourafel ^a   G̈rg, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency gap; Foreign direct investment; Productivity spillovers; Quantile regressions

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ENGINEERING; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249655645     PISSN: 09237992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11079-007-9031-y     Document Type: Article

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