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Foreign direct investment and knowledge diffusion in poor locations
Abebe, Girum; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Serafinelli, Michel - 2020
. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242922
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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger (contributor); Greenaway, David (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001830017
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Does foreign entry spur innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015
Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308400
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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013
host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of … domestic firms while horizontal and forward linkages show no consistent effect. We also examine how the strength of spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227718
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An injury to one is an injury to all : terrorism's spillover effects on bilateral trade
Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017
stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694823
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Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413769
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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309155
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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : Evidence from 17 emerging market economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2007
(i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger sample of countries and greater variety of firms than existing … studies, with separate estimates by firm size, age, and sector, we show: a) backward spillovers (stemming from supplying a … foreign firm in the host country or exporting to a foreign firm) are consistently positive; b) horizontal spillovers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561639
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017
This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price-cost markups), (ii) labor market imperfections (workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776033
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The impact of new free trade agreements on incumbent firms and workers
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2023
Trade policies might affect firms' market power and their ability to reap product-market mark-ups. Thus, potentially they influence not only firms' economic performance, but also worker pay. Utilising panel-data on Norwegian Manufacturing exporters from 2005-18 and multi-product production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442570