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This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
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productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity …, construction, mining/petroleum/utilities, and tourism sector. By contrast, we show that countries with faster productivity growth … role for financial openness: a country with fast productivity growth draws in more FDI into its service sectors only when …
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productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity …, construction, mining/petroleum/utilities and tourism sector. By contrast, we show that countries with faster productivity growth in … financial openness: a country with fast productivity growth draws in more FDI into its service sectors only when it is …
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only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the … characteristics of the countries in which the multinational parent companies are located on the productivity of their affiliates … direct investment ; productivity spillover ; investor country characteristics …
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Raising the productivity content of exports is an important issue for developing and emerging countries. What role do … generalizing the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the host country's export productivity level. Using panel data, we … present new empirical evidence suggesting that FDI boosts the overall productivity level of the developing and emerging …
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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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This paper investigates the impacts of Export-platform foreign direct investment on the production of upstream industries through backward linkages. First, in a three-country model, these impacts are explained through a competition effect and a demand effect. Otherwise, such production is also...
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countries. The sample includes 32 studies that model the contribution of FDI presence to local productivity in the host country …
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spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. In contrast with earlier literature that failed to find … firm-level data from Lithuania, produces evidence consistent with positive productivity spillovers from FDI taking place …
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changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between … use of intermediate inputs. We find that foreign control increases productivity growth in domestically-controlled plants … positive productivity effects of foreign control are more pronounced for those plants that outsource more intermediates, and …
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