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The effect of environmental regulation on the locational choice of Japanese foreign direct investment

Colin Kirkpatrick Institute for Development Policy and Management, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Kenichi Shimamoto Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK
Pages 1399-1409 | Published online: 11 Apr 2011

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