Effects of foreign presence in a transition economy: Regional and industrywide investments and firm-level exports in Ukrainian manufacturing

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 82-98

  Lutz, Stefan ^a,b   Talavera, Oleksandr ^c   Park, Sang Min ^d  

^a KPMG AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Foreign direct investment; Spillovers; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849084001     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X440506     Document Type: Article

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