Are there productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in china?

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-153

  Hale, Galina ^a   Long, Cheryl ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b Colgate University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DATA SET; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SPILLOVER EFFECT; WORLD BANK;

CHINA;

EID: 79955501943     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2011.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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