Multinational companies and productivity spillovers: Is there a specification error?

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1047-1051

  Castellani, Davide ^a   Zanfei, Antonello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PRODUCTIVITY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 36048955860     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600706503     Document Type: Article

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