Does state ownership matter? Institutions' effect on foreign direct investment revisited

Business and Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Knutsen, Carl Henrik ^a   Rygh, Asmund ^b   Hveem, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

corruption; democracy; foreign direct investment; human rights; institutions; property rights; rule of law; state ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955661362     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1314     Document Type: Article

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