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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...

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Multinationals, Access to Finance and the Exports of Private Firms in China

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …

Using a rich panel data set, we provide a rigorous analysis of the relationship between access to external finance, foreign direct investment and the exports of private enterprises in China. We conclude that, in order to foster the exports of indigenous enterprises, the elimination of financial...

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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Safeguarding Jobs? Acquisition FDI and Employment Dynamics in U.K. Manufacturing

Girma, Sourafel - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 141 (2005) 1, pp. 165-178

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 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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Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms...

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Foreign Ownership, Returns to Scale and Productivity: Evidence from UK Manufacturing Establishments

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics and food industries. Our results show that foreign establishments tend to have lower returns to scale than their domestic counterparts. We also examine the effect of the...

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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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