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Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading : Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry

Bai, Jie - 2020

access) on facilitating knowledge spillover and quality upgrading. Our context is the Chinese automobile industry, where … similarity in quality strength compared to non-affiliated pairs. The results suggest that quid pro quo spurs additional knowledge …

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang - 2003

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Contracts, Intellectual Property Rights, and Multinational Investment in Developing Countries

Markusen, James R. - 1998

The institution and enforcement of property rights and contracts have been an important policy issue for the developing countries, the transition economies, and the developed countries in the 1990s. This has led to the development of a literature on technology transfer and how property rights...

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Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer : A Simple Model

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1989

This paper develops a model in which international technology transfer through foreign direct investment emerges as an endogenized equilibrium phenomenon, resulting from the strategic interaction between subsidiaries of multinational corporations and host country firms. The model explicitly...

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FDI and Superstar Spillovers : Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions

Amiti, Mary; Duprez, Cédric; Konings, Jozef; Van … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction data in a developed country to examine the impact of...

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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position

Chor, Davin - 2020

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more … profit margins. We rationalize these patterns with a stylized model of the firm lifecycle with complementarity between the …

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Anxiety or Pain? The Impact of Tariffs and Uncertainty on Chinese Firms in the Trade War

Benguria, Felipe - 2020

The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs … confronting Chinese firms. Due to firm-level differences in trade engagement, customs trade data combined with tariff changes …-in-differences examination of these firm-level data reveals that trade war increases in U.S. tariffs and Chinese retaliatory tariffs both raised …

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance : Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States

Chari, Anusha - 2009

This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions made by firms located in emerging markets. Neoclassical theory predicts that, on net, capital should flow from countries that are capital-abundant to countries that are...

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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence From Japanese Firm-Level Data

Fukao, Kyoji - 2006

Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms' profitability in the case of both within-group in-in acquisitions and in-in acquisitions by domestic outsiders. In fact, in the manufacturing sector, the return on assets even deteriorated one year and two years after...

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Foreign Owners and Plant Survival

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2003

In recent years, international capital flows of all types have increased dramatically and most governments have been actively encouraging inflows of direct investment. However, concerns remain that reliance on foreign multinationals may be a risky development strategy as foreign firms are likely...

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