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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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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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Technology Transfer from Acquisition FDI and the Absorptive Capacity of Domestic Firms: An Empirical Investigation

Girma, Sourafel - In: Open Economies Review 16 (2005) 2, pp. 175-187

This paper seeks to establish the role of absorptive capacity in technology transfer from acquisition FDI in U …

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The Role of the Efficiency Gap for Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from the UK Electronics and Engineering Sectors

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - In: Open Economies Review 18 (2007) 2, pp. 215-232

productivity spillovers from FDI. We use establishment level data for the period 1980â€“1992 for the UK. Given that there is … engineering. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity … for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI interacted with the efficiency gap. We also analyse in …

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