Multinational corporations and the hysteresis in foreign direct investment flows
β Scribed by Kostas Axarloglou; Painos Kouvelis
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 106 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1083-0898
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