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Technology, market characteristics, and spillovers
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In this paper, the authors suggest that technology spillovers from foreign direct investment may provide important benefits for the host countries of multinational corporations (MNCs) (see Chapter 8).About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 1994-04-01. It has received 1103 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign direct investment & Productivity.read more
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Multinational Corporations and Spillovers
Magnus Blomstrom,Ari Kokko +1 more
TL;DR: In the major home countries, the debate on foreign direct investment has ranged from worries that outward FDI may substitute for domestic investment and erode technology leadership, to the argument that firms must invest abroad in order to stay competitive in an increasingly international environment as mentioned in this paper.
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Advanced International Trade : Theory and Evidence Ed. 2
TL;DR: The Advanced International Trade (AIT) as discussed by the authors is a classic graduate textbook in international trade that has been used widely by students and practitioners of economics for a long time to come.
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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Investment?
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation of the empirical evidence on productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies is presented. But, although theory can identify a range of possible spillover channels, robust empirical support for positive spillovers is hard to find.
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Foreign direct investment in developing countries and growth: A selective survey
TL;DR: In this article, the authors survey the latest developments in the literature on the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth in developing countries, and show that FDI is a composite bundle of capital stocks, know-how, and technology, and hence its impact on growth is expected to be manifold and vary a great deal between technologically advanced and developing countries.
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Much ado about nothing? do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Holger Görg,David Greenaway +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the empirical evidence on productivity, wage, and export spillovers in developing, developed, and transition economies and conclude that robust empirical support for positive spillovers is at best mixed.
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International Corporations: The Industrial Economics of Foreign Investment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that foreign direct investment occurs mainly in industries characterized by certain market structures in both the "lending" or home and "borrowing" (or host) countries.
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Multinational Firms, Competition, and Productivity in Host-Country Markets
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test for certain benefits of foreign direct investment in the manufacturing sectors of two leading host countries-Canada and Australia-and find that these potential benefits can be divided into three classes.
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Are there positive spillovers from direct foreign investment
Mona Haddad,Ann Harrison +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a unique firm-level dataset to test for such spillovers in the Moroccan manufacturing sector and find evidence that the dispersion of productivity is smaller in sectors with more foreign firms.
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Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model
TL;DR: In this article, the authors construct a simple dynamic model that hopefully captures some relevant and interesting aspects of the way in which the transfer of technology takes place, including the role of direct foreign investment.
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Technological Innovation and Multinational Corporations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a dynamic model of the post-war growth of international economic activity in Europe and the USA, and the evolution of technological competition between US and European firms technological advantage as a determinant of the international economic activities of firms technological competition and intra-industry production in the industrialised world.
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