Does foreign aid promote recipient exports to donor countries?

Review of World Economics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 505-535

  Nowak Lehmann, Felicitas ^a   Martínez Zarzoso, Inmaculada ^a   Herzer, Dierk ^b   Klasen, Stephan ^c   Cardozo, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foreign aid; International trade; Non stationary panel data; Recipient exports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880934430     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-013-0155-4     Document Type: Article

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