Location factors of FDI and the growing services economy

Economics of Transition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 741-761

  Riedl, Aleksandra ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data model; Foreign direct investment; Service sector; Stock adjustment model; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PRICE DYNAMICS; SERVICE SECTOR; STOCK MARKET; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 77955721313     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2010.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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