Foreign capital and efficiency in developing countries

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 351-374

  Mastromarco, Camilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embodied knowledge; Human capital; Stochastic frontier model; Technical efficiency and trade liberalization

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TRADE LIBERALIZATION;

EID: 53349129875     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: 14678586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2008.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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