Do Chinese domestic firms benefit from FDI inflow?. Evidence of horizontal and vertical spillovers

China Economic Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 677-691

  Lin, Ping ^a   Liu, Zhuomin ^b   Zhang, Yifan ^a  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Foreign direct investment; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350045034     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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