Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5092321 | Journal of Comparative Economics | 2014 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of domestic firms while horizontal and forward linkages show no consistent effect. We also examine how the strength of spillovers varies by sector, FDI source, institutional environment (corruption, red tape, level of development), firm's distance to the technological frontier, and other firm- and country-specific characteristics.
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Authors
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell,