Political risk as a determinant of southern European FDI in neighboring developing countries

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 59-74

  Jiménez, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

central and eastern Europe; corruption; developing countries; foreign direct investment; multinational enterprise; North Africa; panel data; political risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052512334     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X470404     Document Type: Article

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