Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industry Performance
This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry- and country-level data for 17 OECD countries over the period 1973 to 2001. Controlling for national and international knowledge spillovers we argue that the effects of FDI work through direct compositional effects as well as changing competition in the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a country's stock of outward FDI is, on average, negatively related to productivity. However, again there is substantial heterogeneity in the effect across OECD countries. Copyright 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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2009
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Authors: | Bitzer, Jürgen ; Görg, Holger |
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The World Economy. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 32.2009, 2, p. 221-233
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Wiley Blackwell |
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