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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in recent years. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and very poor countries face major difficulties in attracting foreign investors. This paper investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing countries, with a...
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productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970 …
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of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit … technological distance from their foreign counterparts tend to experience faster productivity growth, while firms with larger …
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The effect of technology spillovers is widely considered as one of the main channels through which domestic firms benefit from FDI (Foreign Direct Investments), and plays an important role in economic development of host countries. FDI is expected to generate technology spillovers to indigenous...
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productivity of domestic firms. A new insight gained from the theory is that the level and rate effects of spillovers can go in … in FDI at the four-digit industry level lowers the short-term productivity level but raises the long-term rate of … productivity growth of domestic firms in the same industry. We also find that spillovers through backward and forward linkages …
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with a focus on the spillover-induced productivity and efficiency change. The results show that spillovers as a result of … productivity effects vary across regions. Our analysis also indicates that highly skewed distribution of FDI leads to a less …
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country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong … the effects of FDI spillover on firms' productivity in Bangladesh in comparison to Vietnam. We consider both the … productivity improvement through intra-industry or horizontal linkages, whereas Vietnamese firms gain through backward linkages …
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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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The present paper conducts a meta-analysis of literature on intra-industry productivity spillovers from foreign direct …
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presence (measured by turnover) increases the Total Factor Productivity of domestic firms by 0.42 percentage points. Thus, the …
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