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Clustering, competition, and spillover effects: Evidence from Cambodia
Chhair, Sokty; Newman, Carol - 2014
markets. Using data on the population of all firms in Cambodia we investigate the pattern of firm clustering and explore the …The potential benefits of the geographical clustering of economic activity have been well documented in the literature … and investigate the types of firms that benefit or suffer as a result of geographical clustering. We find strong negative …
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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer: Evidence from China
Jiang, Kun; Keller, Wolfgang; Qiu, Larry D.; Ridley, William - 2018
This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007—roughly a quarter of...
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Access to Credit: Microenterprises in Turkey
Duman, Alper - 2009
Access to external finance for small and medium enterprises is vital for survival and growth of such firms. In this paper we have analyzed the determinants of access to credit in microenterprises of Turkey. We use a unique dataset covering a large sample of microenterprises. We find that size...
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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
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The Impact Of Fdi On Firm Survival And Employment: A Comparative Analysis For Turkey And Italy
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Mazzotta, Fernanda; Taymaz, Erol; … - 2013
Using firm level data on Italian and Turkish manufacturing industries we investigate the differences in survival patterns of foreign owned and domestic firms testing the hypothesis of foreign multinational enterprises (FMNEs) ?foot-loose? behavior (in line with seminal studies such as Görg and...
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Intra-industry spillovers from inward FDI: A meta-regression analysis
Havránek, Tomáš - 2008
The present paper conducts a meta-analysis of literature on intra-industry spillovers from foreign direct investment, using 97 different outcomes from 67 empirical studies. Apart from the traditional approach, robust meta-regression, random-effects model, and normal probability regression are...
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How to stir up FDI spillovers: Evidence from a large meta-analysis
Havránek, Tomáš; Iršová, Zuzana - 2011
The voluminous empirical research on horizontal productivity spillovers from foreign investors to domestic firms has yielded mixed results. In this paper, we collect 1,205 estimates of horizontal spillovers from the literature and examine which factors influence spillover magnitude. To identify...
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Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2013
We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...
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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332953
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Productivity spillovers from multinational activity to indigenous firms in Ireland
Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Lawless, Martina; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2018
As well as their direct effects on output and employment, the attraction of foreign direct investment is sometimes argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance of domestic firms. Empirical evidence on this has...
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