Information and communication technology and foreign direct investment: interactions and contributions to economic growth

Empirical Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1525-1539

  Ketteni, Elena ^a   Kottaridi, Constantina ^b   Mamuneas, Theofanis P ^c  

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Foreign direct investment; Information and communication technology; Semiparametric estimation; Smooth coefficient model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939896532     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-014-0839-1     Document Type: Article

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