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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-Off and Export Market Entry : Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?

Girma, Sourafel - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...

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Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms

Girma, Sourafel - 2015

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms...

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Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Driffield, Nigel L. - 2010

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … has on this. We illustrate the important differences that horizontal and vertical FDI have on both wages and wage …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2021

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …

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Multinationals' Productivity Advantage : Scale or Technology?

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2015

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these two components of productivity growth. We do so by...

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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies : An Empirical Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - 2021

in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that …

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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