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Technology spillover and absorptive capacity of firms and countries
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2022
The paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects in developing countries and investigates the importance of the absorptive capacity of a firm and a country in realizing and facilitating FDI spillover. It uses data obtained from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys for 107...
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Technology transfer and firm competitiveness : the case of Indonesia
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2023
This paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects from foreign to domestic firms in Indonesia and assesses the significance of geographical factors on FDI spillover. It uses firm-level data from the Indonesian Bureau of Public Statistics (BPS) covering the period from...
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Different paths to economic integration in Europe and Asia
Pomfret, Richard - 2019
Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from …
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Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity
Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022
This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...
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Foreign direct investment spillovers and pharmaceutical innovation : the role of intellectual property rights
Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Xin; Zhou, Weimin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect...
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Informal labor regulations, firm boundaries, and global sourcing
Bansal, Renu; Maiti, Dibyendu - 2024
This paper extends the global sourcing model with informal labor, which spawns reputation and legal costs for violating the rules and regulations imposed on foreign firms regarding accessing informal labor under integration. Under these circumstances, foreign firms, facing a higher cost than...
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Do political connections spur technology transfer? : evidence from India from a governance perspective
Ahmad, Wasim; Chahal, Rishman Jot Kaur - 2023
Corporate governance is vital in the effective implementation of domestic and foreign economic policies. In this context, this study examines the role of political connections in the Indian context to understand their impact on firms' productivity and technology transfer. We ask the following...
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In-house R&D, technology transfer, and firms' performance
Doan Ha Thi Thanh; Long Quang Trinh - 2023
This study examines the individual and joint impact of technology transfer and in-house R&D on firms' productivity and export performance. We utilize a specially designed survey module on firms' technology competitiveness in Vietnamese manufacturing, which allows us to identify various forms of...
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Does GVC participation improve firm productivity? : a study of three developing Asian countries
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2021
This paper examines the impact of local firms' participation in global value chains (GVCs) on productivity by considering three different patterns of GVC participation. We conducted a DID-PSM estimation involving three countries, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam, and 17 manufacturing...
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The servicification of manufacturing in Asia : redefining the sources of labor productivity
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; Ablaza, Christine - 2018
manufacturing in Asia. Our contribution to the emerging literature is twofold. First, we propose a conceptual framework of … servicification. And second, we offer some preliminary evidence of this phenomenon for Asia and measurement proposals to disentangle …
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