Does Foreign Direct Investment Transfer Technology Across Borders? A Reexamination

Reexamining foreign direct investment (FDI) as a potential channel for knowledge diffusion - based on industry data from seventeen OECD countries during the period 1973-2000 - we find that FDI-receiving countries benefit strongly from FDI-related knowledge spillovers. We do not find evidence for positive FDI-related technology sourcing effects. Instead, our results suggest that outward FDI might have negative effects on the output of the FDI- sending country.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Bitzer, Jürgen ; Kerekes, Monika
Publisher:	Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Subject:	Direktinvestition \| Technologietransfer \| Wissenstransfer \| OECD-Staaten \| foreign direct investment \| knowledge spillovers

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Series:	Diskussionsbeiträge ; 2005/7
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	495206458 [GVK] hdl:10419/22139 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:fubsbe:20057 [RePEc]
Classification:	O47 - Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; E23 - Production ; F21 - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
Source:	EconStor

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