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The effects of greenfield investment and M&As on domestic investment in developing countries

Ayesha AshrafDepartment of Economics, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, 22043Hamburg, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Dierk HerzerDepartment of Economics, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, 22043Hamburg, Germany
Pages 997-1000 | Published online: 09 Apr 2014

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