Foreign direct investment, financial markets, and political corruption

Journal of Economic Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 486-500

  Kholdy, Shady ^a   Sohrabian, Ahmad ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Financial markets; International investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849420504     PISSN: 01443585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443580810916514     Document Type: Article

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