How do different drivers of R&D investment in foreign locations affect domestic firm performance? An analysis based on Swiss panel micro data

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 605-640

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a   Hollenstein, Heinz ^a,b  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INNOVATION; INVESTMENT LOCATION; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; PANEL DATA; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79953713231     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr006     Document Type: Article

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