Spillovers from multinationals to heterogeneous domestic firms: Evidence from Hungary

World Economy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1408-1433

  Békés, Gábor ^a   Kleinert, Jörn ^b   Toubal, Farid ^c  

^a Institute of Economics HAS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPORT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PRODUCTIVITY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

EID: 70449427866     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: 14679701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2009.01179.x     Document Type: Article

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