Foreign presence and efficiency in transition economies

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-102

  Kravtsova, Victoria ^a,b  

^a The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; DEA; FDI; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549121304     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0073-3     Document Type: Article

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