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Productivity Convergence and Foreign Ownership at the Establishment Level

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen J.; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important, suggesting the existence of technology spillovers. Foreign...

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Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure

Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary...

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Productivity Growth, Human Capital, and Technology Spillovers: Nonparametric Evidence for EU Regions

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper assesses the strength of productivity spillovers non-parametrically in a data-set of 12 industries and 231 NUTS2 regions in 17 European Union member countries between 1992 and 2006. It devotes particular attention to measuring catching up through spillovers depending on the technology...

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Multinational Companies and Indigenous Development: An Empirical Analysis

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper presents an empirical study of the effect of foreign multinational companies on the development of indigenous firms in the host country. Our starting point is a recent paper by Markusen and Venables (1999) that shows formally that multinationals, through the creation of linkages with...

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Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen J.; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature – the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Competitive Pressure and Spillovers. An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Firm Level Data

Sembenelli, Alessandro; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

A short review of the theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that foreign direct investment (FDI) has the …, all else equal, an increase in average firm performance following a wave of FDI, as multinational corporations (MNCs … estimating a dynamic model of firm level performance, which we proxy by profitability. We find that FDI has a positive long …

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R&D and Technology Spillovers through FDI: Innovation and Absorptive Capacity

Kinoshita, Yuko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

technology spillovers from FDI (foreign direct investment) on a firm’s productivity growth. Using firm-level panel data on Czech … of R&D in explaining the productivity growth of a firm 2) Technology spillovers from FDI occur for firms that are more R …

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Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?

Lychagin, Sergey; Pinkse, Joris; Slade, Margaret E.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technology and product–market proximity. To do this, we construct a new measure of geographic proximity that is based on the distribution of a firm’s inventor...

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Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade...

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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...

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