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We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. We use the location rankings of profit-maximizing firms to compare incumbent plants in the county where the...
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enacted a relatively liberal regulatory framework have also been more successful at infrastructure provision. Ongoing reform …
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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 … countries do not benefit from horizontal FDI but benefit from forward and backward vertical FDI. The study also finds that firms …
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. However, the coefficient values of FDI are smaller, suggesting that the positive effects are marginal. (b) When FDI inflows … collaborations increase productivity in part through its effect on the FDI inflows. (c) Another interesting finding is that there is … no strong evidence to show that this positive effect is state-heterogeneous. In turn, we find partial effects of FDI are …
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industries between 2000 and 2012, Export-platform FDI generates a negative effect. Moreover, local content requirement, and trade …
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productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity … prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows and, using a new data set, at FDI flows into the main economic sectors. We make … three points. First, we do not find evidence of an allocation puzzle for aggregate FDI flows. Second, we refine the …
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productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity … prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows and, using a new data set, at FDI flows into the main economic sectors. We make … three points. First, we do not find evidence of an allocation puzzle for aggregate FDI flows. Second, we refine the …
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While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...
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Using data on manufacturing plants operating in Canada for the period from 1981 to 1997, we estimate the effect of changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between foreign control in own industry of domestically-controlled...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to generate external effects - usually termed FDI spillovers - for a host … expectation, the empirical findings on FDI spillover are still indecisive. This study examines firm-level panel data to determine … the effects of FDI spillover on firms' productivity in Bangladesh in comparison to Vietnam. We consider both the …
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