Does distance matter in spillover?

Economics of Transition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 781-805

  Halpern, László ^a,b,c   Muraközy, Balázs ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c WDI   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign direct investments; Spillovers; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; LABOR MARKET; MANUFACTURING; MODELING; PRODUCTIVITY; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

EID: 34848847812     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2007.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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