Creating Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Is there a Role for Financial Incentives?

Review of International Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-259

  Görg, Holger ^a   Hanley, Aoife ^a   Strobl, Eric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c Département d'Economie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INCENTIVE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PANEL DATA;

IRELAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954546296     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: 14679396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2011.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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