Product complexity, quality of institutions and the protrade effect of immigrants

World Economy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-85

  Briant, Anthony ^a   Combes, Pierre Philippe ^b   Lafourcade, Miren ^c  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c European Chair on Intellectual Capital and RITM University Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EXPORT; IMMIGRANT; IMPORT; TRADE PERFORMANCE;

FRANCE;

EID: 84892477129     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: 14679701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/twec.12109     Document Type: Article

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