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Chinese Firms'Entry to Export Markets : The Role of Foreign Export Spillovers
Mayneris, Florian - 2017
important cost-advantage such as China, there is room for initiatives from policy-makers that will diffuse best practices …
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Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The Implications of China'S"Special Characteristics"
Du, Luosha - 2017
The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China …'s domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional features that comprise aspects of China … for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and Hong Kong (SAR of China), Taiwan (China), and Macau (SAR of …
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A Product Space Perspective on Structural Change in Morocco
Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2017
Drawing on international trade data, this paper uses the product space approach to analyze changes in Morocco?s goods exports in 1990?2010 and future export priorities. The level of Morocco?s gross domestic product and its moderate growth match the predictions of product space analysis, informed...
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Learning or Leaning : Persistent and Transitory Growth Spillovers from FDI
Davies, Ronald B. - 2017
Using firm-level data for Jordan, the paper estimates the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or...
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Potential and Actual FDI Spillovers in Global Value Chains : The Role of Foreign Investor Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and Transmission Channels
Winkler, Deborah E. - 2017
Using newly collected survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper first evaluates whether foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to generate positive spillovers for...
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Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework : The Role of Mediating Factors for FDI Spillovers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Farole, Thomas - 2017
Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It...
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Microeconomic Consequences and Macroeconomic Causes of Foreign Direct Investment in Southern African Economies
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
The causes and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries remains a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers alike. The authors use international data and a new micro-data set of firms in thirteen Southern African Developing Countries (SADCs) to...
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Local Intermediate Inputs and the Shared Supplier Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2018
Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms' performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms'...
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FDI Spillovers and High-Growth Firms in Developing Countries
Reyes, Jose-Daniel - 2017
This paper evaluates the heterogeneous impact of spillovers from multinational corporations (MNCs) to domestic enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct contractual linkages between indigenous firms and MNCs....
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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2017
This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...
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