This paper studies the effect of technology spillovers on the entry decision of a multinational enterprise into a … acquisitions become more attractive. Asymmetric information about potential spillovers always reduces the number of acquisitions …

adoption. The model's predictions are consistent with the stylized facts drawn from the empirical literature on FDI spillovers … incompatibilities reduce the welfare gains from openness to FDI, but this negative effect can be overcome by domestic technology …

. Furthermore, endowment of skilled labour and foreign direct investments (FDI) may reinforce each other through possible quot … presence of a virtuous (vicious) circle between HC accumulation and FDI inflows …

empirical literature on spillovers from FDI. Studies have found conflicting evidence on the spillover effects. While some of the … considerable number of studies find that productivity spillovers from FDI are dependent on the absorptive capacity of the domestic …Attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered as an important source of sustainable development, income …

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the … latter significantly affects the size of FDI linkage effects - the more competitive is the intermediate goods sector, the … have also discovered that a more competitive market structure per se doesn't guarantee larger positive effects of FDI. It …

We analyze how one of the central drivers of globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI), relates to the prevalence … proper political institutions and practices. We develop an alternative explanation that looks at the effect of inward FDI on …, FDI inflows can increase market concentration, resulting in higher rents that public officials can demand from market …

appropriate training of local managers. Technological spillovers from foreign direct investment arise when such managers are later … foreign affiliate to prevent them from moving to local competitors. We study conditions under which technological spillovers …