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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Many governments offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of spillovers. It then provides a comprehensive evaluation of the empirical evidence on productivity, wages and exports...

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Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: Measurement matters!

Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...

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Exporting, Linkages and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Pisu, Mauro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs domestic market...

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Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Haskel, Jonathan; Pereira, Sonia; Slaughter, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions we use a plant-level panel covering UK manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Across a wide range of specifications, we estimate a...

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Suppliers of multinationals and the forced linkage effect: Evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...

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Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain

Rice, Patricia; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of spatial variations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occupational composition effect. For the former (but not the latter) we find a...

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Price Clustering in the FX Market: A Disaggregate Analysis Using Central Bank Intervention

Fischer, Andreas M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Price clustering is a well-documented regularity of foreign exchange transactions. In this Paper, I present new … empirical evidence of price clustering for central bank interventions. A feature of the price clustering in Swiss National Bank … (SNB) transactions is market dependency. Evidence of clustering in the broker market is considerably smaller than in the …

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Herd Effects and Migration

Epstein, Gil S; Hillman, Arye L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

In this paper we introduce the notion of herd effects or information cascades into models of migration-related phenomena. We consider individuals making sequential decisions regarding emigration. Each individual receives a signal which conveys private information regarding preferred locations...

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Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration

Harrigan, James; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

demand and cost uncertainties are resolved. Using several related models we show that this can cause clustering of component …

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Learning to be an Entrepreneur

Guiso, Luigi; Schivardi, Fabiano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Is entrepreneurial talent entirely innate or do people learn to become entrepreneurs? We extend Lucas's (1978) model of entrepreneurship to allow for the possibility that entrepreneurial talents may be acquired by watching other entrepreneurs in action. This model implies that areas with a...

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