Do Institutions Matter for Foreign Direct Investment?
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- Fathi Ali & Norbert Fiess & Ronald MacDonald, 2010. "Do Institutions Matter for Foreign Direct Investment?," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 201-219, April.
- Ali, Fathi & Fiess, Norbert & MacDonald, Ronald, 2008. "Do Institutions Matter for Foreign Direct Investment?," SIRE Discussion Papers 2008-34, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).
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Foreign direct investment; institutions; sectoral FDI;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
- F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-OPM-2008-10-07 (Open Economy Macroeconomics)
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