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- Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States
- This paper estimates international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment FDI between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, the results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- To Share Or Not To Share: Does Local Participation Matter For Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment?
- This article examines whether the degree of spillovers from foreign direct investment is affected by the foreign ownership share in investment projects. The analysis, based on an unbalanced panel of Romanian firms during 1998-2000, produces evidence consistent with positive intra-sectoral spillovers resulting from fully owned foreign affiliates but not from...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers Within and Between Sectors: Evidence From Hungarian Data
- This paper analyses how FDI influences labour productivity of domestic firms in Hungary. One finds that foreign firms perform better than local firms. The presence of foreign firms has a positive spillover effect on labour productivity of local firms in the same sector, specifically in very open manufacturing sectors. Spillover...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And Spillovers: Gradualism May Be Better
- The standard argument says that in the presence of positive spillovers foreign direct investment should be promoted and subsidized. In contrast, this paper claims that the very existence of such spillovers may require temporarily restricting and taxing inward FDI Foreign Direct Investment. Argument in favor of gradual liberalization is based...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment: Within Or Between Industries?
- This paper contributes an estimation framework to measure both technological and linkage externalities from Foreign Direct Investment FDI. Empirical research dealt mainly with intra-industry spillovers from FDI with restrictive treatment of inter-industry effects until nowadays. However, as optimal organization of the MultiNational Corporation MNC involves minimization of profit losses due...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Exporting, Linkages And Productivity Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. Spillovers are investigated through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs. domestic market oriented FDI Foreign Direct Investment, and allow for differing effects depending on...
- White papers 2006-03-10
- Testing For Marginal Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper develops a simple test to assess whether horizontal spillover effects from multinational to domestic firms are endogenous to the market structure generated by the entry of the same multinationals. In particular, the performance of a panel of 10,650 domestic and multinational firms operating in Romania in the period...
- White papers 2005-11-10
- Whither Globalisation?: The Beleaguered Promise Of Foreign Investment For Sustainable Development
- Foreign Direct Investment FDI is a leading driver of globalization. Undertaken by TransNational Corporations TNCs, FDI is creating dense and complex global networks of production and consumption. This paper examines statistical and case studies of the relationship between FDI and economic growth in developing countries. It focuses on knowledge spillovers,...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- The Role Of FDI In Eastern Europe And New Independent States: New Channels For The Spillover Effect
- Policymakers around the world introduce special policies aimed at attracting Foreign Direct Investments FDI. They motivate their decision by the spillover effect, which FDI have on domestic companies. Empirical literature so far has failed to find any robust evidence of this effect. This paper makes an attempt to explain this...
- White papers 2005-12-20
- FDI, Labour Mobility And Wages
- There is a multitude of empirical research attempting to measure the effects of FDI Foreign Direct Investment, including the extent of spillovers from foreign owned to domestic firms. However, the mechanisms through which these spillovers occur have not received as much attention. One of the potential channels for spillovers of...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment: A Meta Analysis
- The extensive empirical literature analyzing productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment to local firms provides inconclusive results. Some studies find that foreign presence has a positive impact on the productivity of domestic firms, while others find no evidence or a negative effect. Differences in the results may be attributable to...
- White papers 2005-12-03
- Is Foreign Direct Investment A Channel Of Knowledge Spillovers?
- Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international "Spillovers" of technological information. FDI Foreign Direct Investment is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers. The author introduces a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Trade, Foreign Direct Investment And Spillover Effect: An Empirical Analysis On FDI And Import From G7 To China
- The theories of economic growth indicated a country's productivity depends not only on the domestic R&D (Research & Development) but also on Foreign R&D capital. Especially, the developing countries can benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries by trading with the industrial countries or by receiving FDI...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Disentangling FDI Spillover Effects: What Do Firm Perceptions Tell Us?
- This paper's purpose is to shed some light on the difficulties facing researchers tackling the issue of FDI spillovers. Horizontal and vertical spillovers are examined in the context of Romania and the Czech Republic and demonstrate how starkly the conclusions may differ depending on the country analyzed, despite using the...
- White papers 2005-04-19
- Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Spillovers: Which Firms Really Benefit?
- The impact of Foreign Direct Investment FDI on host economies remains one of the most important questions in the international economics literature, faced with renewed interest in recent years. Two main issues dominate the discussion: The efficiency benefits that come along with FDI and may lead to direct increases in...
- White papers 2003-03-05
- Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost The Productivity Of Domestic Firms?
- Are there productivity spillovers from FDI Foreign Direct Investment to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions it uses a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Paper estimates a significantly positive correlation between...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The Role Of Exports And Foreign Linkages For FDI Productivity Spillovers
- In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs domestic market oriented FDI Foreign Direct Investment, and allow for differing effects...
- White papers 2004-01-28
- Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers, Absorptive Capacities And Human Capital Development
- It is generally accepted that attracting and embedding inward Foreign Direct Investment FDI has important development effects because FDI represents an important source of technological spillovers. This paper discusses some of the reasons why MNEs are considered a key agent for human and technological development. It investigates direct and indirect...
- White papers 2006-08-15
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase The Productivity Of Domestic Firms?: In Search Of Spillovers Through Backward Linkages
- Many countries strive to attract Foreign Direct Investment FDI in the hope that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. In contrast with earlier literature that failed to find positive intra-industry spillovers from FDI, this study focuses on effects operating across industries. The...
- White papers 2003-07-23
- Industrial Linkages And Export Spillovers From FDI
- This paper investigates the hypothesis of export spillovers from foreign multinationals to domestic firms using a data set of UK manufacturing firms from 1992 to 1999. Unlike previous studies the authors allow not only for the possibility of horizontal (i.e. intra-industry) and regional externalities, but also for vertical ones (i.e....
- White papers 2005-09-02
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