Productivity, export performance, and financing of the Czech corporate sector: The effects of foreign direct investment

Finance a Uver - Czech Journal of Economics and Finance

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 231-247

  Geršl, Adam ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH NATIONAL BANK   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Corporate finance; Export performance; Foreign direct investment; Productivity; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049096552     PISSN: 00151920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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