In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm-level panel data for U.K. manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward, and forward linkages; distinguish spillovers from export-oriented vs domestic-market-oriented FDI; and allow for differing effects, depending on domestic firms' export activities. The results suggest that the mechanisms through which spillovers affect domestic firms are very complex and that there are substantial differences in spillover benefits for domestic exporters and non-exporters, and from different types of inward investment.

Exporting, linkages and productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment

. In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm-level panel data for U.K. manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward, and forward linkages; distinguish spillovers from export-oriented vs domestic-market-oriented FDI; and allow for differing effects, depending on domestic firms' export activities. The results suggest that the mechanisms through which spillovers affect domestic firms are very complex and that there are substantial differences in spillover benefits for domestic exporters and non-exporters, and from different types of inward investment.



Dans ce memoire, on analyse les effets externes de productivite en provenance de l'investissement direct de l'etranger en utilisant des donnees de panel pour les industries manufacturieres au Royaume Uni entre 1992 et 1999. On examine les effets externes dans leurs effets d'entrainement en amont, en aval et d'une maniere horizontale, tout en distinguant les effets externes decoulant des investissements etrangers destines a produire pour l'exportation par opposition a une production pour le marche domestique. On note aussi les effets differents sur les entreprises domestiques selon l'intensite de leurs activites a l'exportation. Les resultats suggerent que les mecanismes a travers lesquels se transmettent les effets de debordement sur les entreprises domestiques sont tres complexes, qu'il y a des differences significatives dans ces effets pour les entreprises exportatrices et non exportatrices et selon le type d'investissement etranger.

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Applied general equilibrium models for energy studies: a survey

Using data from the UK Census of Production, including foreign ownership data, and information from UK industry input-output tables, this paper examines whether the intensity of transactions linkages between foreign and domestic firms affects productivity growth in domestic manufacturing industries. The implications of the findings for policies promoting linkages between multinational and domestic firms in the UK economy are outlined.

Foreign Direct Investment, Transactions Linkages, and the Performance of the Domestic Sector

Are green hopes too rosy? Employment and welfare impacts of renewable energy promotion

Non-competitive market behaviour in the international coking coal market

Issues in food miles and carbon labelling

Over a third of the mines of publicly listed companies in the major nonenergy mining industries in Australia were based on long distance commuting in 1999, compared with only one mine in 1980. Long distance commuting in mining has influenced the pattern of regional economic growth, with mainly coastal regions gaining rather than remote areas. Long distance commuting facilitates mining developments in remote locations that would otherwise be uneconomic, enabling society to gain through mineral royalty payments.

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Mining and Regional Australia: Some Implications of Long Distance Commuting

The trends, economic impacts and policy issues associated with the major downturn in mineral exploration activity in Australia since 1996-97 are examined.

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Lindsay Hogan

Papers

Non-competitive market behaviour in the international coking coal market

Issues in food miles and carbon labelling

Mining and Regional Australia: Some Implications of Long Distance Commuting

Mineral Exploration in Australia: Trends, Economic Impacts and Policy Issues

Australia–Japan coking coal trade