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Productivity Spillovers, Regional Spillovers and the Role of by Multinational Enterprises in the New EU Member States

In: Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics

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  • Marcella Nicolini

    (Fondazione ENI Enrico =Mattei)

  • Laura Resmini

    (Università della Valle d’Aosta)

Abstract

There is a widely held assumption that multinational enterprises (MNEs) generate benefits that spill over to the host economy, resulting in productivity growth. Several channels foster the diffusion of such spillovers. They include backward and forward linkages with local firms – through which multinational firms may encourage the entry and development of more efficient local suppliers and final goods producing firms (Markusen and Venables 1999), competition and demonstration effects (Wang and Blomstrom 1992; Glass and Saggi 2002), as well as movements of labour force from multinationals to local firms (Fosfuri et al. 2001). The transmission of spillovers from MNEs to domestic firms, however, is not automatic; rather, it is affected by several factors, most of which can be summarized in the concept of distance, broadly defined in order to encompass both the economic and the geographical dimension. Economic distance concerns relative backwardness and absorptive capacity and determines whether and to what extent local firms eventually benefit from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)-induced spillovers (Findlay 1978; Glass and Saggi 1998).In this paper, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) are used as synonymous.

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  • Marcella Nicolini & Laura Resmini, 2011. "Productivity Spillovers, Regional Spillovers and the Role of by Multinational Enterprises in the New EU Member States," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp & Roger R. Stough (ed.), Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics, pages 105-120, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-17940-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17940-2_6
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    1. Fernando Ubeda & Francisco Pérez-Hernández, 2017. "Absorptive Capacity and Geographical Distance Two Mediating Factors of FDI Spillovers: a Threshold Regression Analysis for Spanish Firms," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 1-28, March.
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    3. Randolph Luca Bruno & Maria Cipollina, 2018. "A meta†analysis of the indirect impact of foreign direct investment in old and new EU member states: Understanding productivity spillovers," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(5), pages 1342-1377, May.
    4. Zoran Aralica & Nebojša Stojčić, 2015. "Regional Patterns of Deindustrialization and Prospects for Reindustrialization in South and Central East European Countries," wiiw Balkan Observatory Working Papers 118, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw.
    5. Laura Casi & Laura Resmini, 2017. "Foreign direct investment and growth: Can different regional identities shape the returns to foreign capital investments?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(8), pages 1483-1508, December.
    6. Stojčić, Nebojša & Aralica, Zoran & Anić, Ivan-Damir, 2019. "Spatio-temporal determinants of the structural and productive transformation of regions in Central and East European countries," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 43(3).

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