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- spillover Effects From Wind Power: Case Study in the Framework of the Project spillovers of Climate Policy
- This case study presents an analysis of spillover effects in the development of wind power, based on a review of four recent studies on the development of wind power. These spillover effects are related to onshore wind technology. The development of offshore wind power is in such an early stage...
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- How To Investigate The Impact Of Foreign Direct Investment On Development
- This paper examines three topics: how to investigate the impact of manufacturing FDI Foreign Direct Investment on a developing country host economy, how to search for externalities and spillovers and identify the channels and mechanisms through which spillovers take place, and how to evaluate the question of whether host governments...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Is There Evidence Of FDI spillover On Chinese Firms' Productivity And Innovation?
- This paper reviews previous literature on productivity spillovers of foreign direct investment FDI in China and conduct our own analysis using a cross-section of firm data. It was found that the evidence of FDI spillovers on the productivity of Chinese domestic firms is mixed, with many positive results largely due...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Productivity spillovers And The Entry Of Foreign-Owned Firms: The Case Of Japanese Manufacturing Firms
- This paper shows that in the short run an increase in foreign firms' industry share lowers the TFP Total Factor Productivity growth of Japanese firms as a result of the decrease in market power. However, in the long run, the entry of foreign-owned firms has a positive effect on the...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- 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
- Trade Liberalization And Productivity Growth
- This paper presents a trade model with firm-level productivity differences and R&D-driven growth. Trade liberalization causes the least productive firms to exit but also slows the development of new products. The overall effect on productivity growth depends on the size of intertemporal knowledge spillovers in R&D (Research & Development). When...
- White papers 2006-09-11
- 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
- Knowledge Flow And Sequential Innovation: Implications For Technology Diffusion, R&D And Market Value
- It is shown that spillovers can enhance private returns to innovation if they feed back into the dynamic research of the original inventor Internalized spillovers, but will always reduce private returns, if the original inventor does not benefit from the advancements other inventors build into the "Spilled" knowledge Externalized spillovers....
- White papers 2006-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Multinational Firms And Productivity spillovers: The Role Of Firms' Heterogeneity
- This paper examines how heterogeneity across firms affects spillovers from multinationals. Using data on firms active in Italy in 1993-2000, it is shown that not every multinational firm is a good source of externality and not every domestic firm is equally well place to benefit from multinational activity. Positive spillovers...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Productivity, spillovers And Human Capital: An Analysis For Italian Firm Data
- This paper tests the extent to which human capital can be considered among the factors facilitating spillovers and the diffusion of new technologies. This is highly relevant for the debate on trends in the competitiveness of the Italian economy, as the low educational attainment of the latter has often been...
- White papers 2005-05-18
- 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
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