Horizontaland vertical spillovers from FDI: Evidence from panel data for the Italian manufacturing sector

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 259-266

  Reganati, Filippo ^a   Sica, Edgardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backward Linkages; FDI; Forward Linkages; Italian Manufacturing Sector; MNEs; Productivity Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649106754     PISSN: 16111699     EISSN: 20294433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16111699.2007.9636178     Document Type: Article

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