Foreign direct investment in services and manufacturing productivity: Evidence for Chile

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-321

  Fernandes, Ana M ^a   Paunov, Caroline ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Chile; Firm heterogeneity; Foreign direct investment; Service liberalization; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LIBERALIZATION; MANUFACTURING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE SECTOR;

CHILE;

EID: 82455171875     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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