Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework

Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It...

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Main Authors:	Farole, Thomas, Winkler, Deborah
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washingon, DC 2013
Subjects:	foreign direct investment spillovers productivity firm characteristics absorptive capacity institutions
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16386

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spelling	okr-10986-163862021-04-23T14:03:29Z Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework Farole, Thomas Winkler, Deborah foreign direct investment spillovers productivity firm characteristics absorptive capacity institutions Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It identifies three types of mediating factors: (i) foreign direct investment spillover potential, (ii) domestic firm absorptive capacity, and (iii) the host country's institutional framework. It finds that all three affect the extent and direction of foreign direct investment spillovers on domestic firm productivity. However, the impact of mediating factors depends significantly on the level of domestic firms' productivity and the structure of foreign ownership. 2013-12-17T22:50:23Z 2013-12-17T22:50:23Z 2012-11 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16386 en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6265 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washingon, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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description	Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It identifies three types of mediating factors: (i) foreign direct investment spillover potential, (ii) domestic firm absorptive capacity, and (iii) the host country's institutional framework. It finds that all three affect the extent and direction of foreign direct investment spillovers on domestic firm productivity. However, the impact of mediating factors depends significantly on the level of domestic firms' productivity and the structure of foreign ownership.
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title	Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework
title_short	Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework
title_full	Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework
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title_full_unstemmed	Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework
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Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework

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