Does foreign aid increase private investment? Evidence from panel cointegration

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2537-2550

  Herzer, Dierk ^a   Grimm, Michael ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Foreign aid; Panel cointegration; Private investment

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL AID; INVESTMENT; PANEL DATA;

EID: 80051770308     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.566183     Document Type: Article

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