Multinationals, Endogenous Growth, and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence*
FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with MNCs, e.g. the Grossman-Helpman model, assume away the knowledge-spillovers aspect of FDI. We also present econometric evidence (using industry-level data from seven OECD nations) that broadly supports the model. Specifically, we find industry-level scale effects and international knowledge spillovers that are unrelated to FDI, but we also find that bilateral spillovers are boosted by bilateral FDI. Copyright 2005 International Monetary Fund.
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2005
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Authors: | Baldwin, Richard ; Braconier, Henrik ; Forslid, Rikard |
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Review of International Economics. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0965-7576. - Vol. 13.2005, 5, p. 945-963
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Wiley Blackwell |
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