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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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Trade balances of the central and east European EU member states and the role of foreign direct investment

Herrmann, Sabine; Jochem, Axel - 2005

analysis with aggregated data indicates that in the eight central and east European EU member states FDI and trade are … complementary. This result is confirmed by an FDI enhanced gravity model which makes use of sectoral data provided by the Bundesbank …'s micro database direct investment (MIDI). The net effect of FDI on the trade balance is ambiguous, but FDI in high …

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International financial competitiveness and incentives to foreign direct investment

Jochem, Axel - 2008

inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable …-Saxon legislation also play a role. Financial competitiveness in turn encourages FDI inflows whereas it benefits fixed investment …

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