Estimating models of complex FDI: Are there third-country effects?

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 260-281

  Baltagi, Badi H ^a   Egger, Peter ^b,c   Pfaffermayr, Michael ^d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complex FDI; Generalized moments (GM) estimators; Mutlinational firms; Panel econometrics; Spatial econometrics

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BILATERAL DETERMINANTS; EMPIRICALLY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI); GENERALIZED MOMENTS; MULTINATIONALS; SPATIAL WEIGHTS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 34547144345     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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