Causal interactions between CO2 emissions, FDI, and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic simultaneous-equation models

Economic Modelling

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 382-389

  Omri, Anis ^a   Nguyen, Duc Khuong ^b   Rault, Christophe ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b IPAG Business School ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^d TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Economic growth; FDI inflows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905639934     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.07.026     Document Type: Article

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