A revisit to the outward FDI determinants: Further evidence from count panel data models with fixed effects

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 809-812

  Wei, Song Zan Chiou ^a   Zhu, Zhen ^b  

^a NANHUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXCHANGE RATE; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548724401     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600689923     Document Type: Article

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