IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ess/wpaper/id11316.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Changing Nature of FDI: Need to Re-examine the Productivity Spillovers

Author

Listed:
  • N S Siddharthan

Abstract

FDI productivity and technology spill over theories were developed during a period when manufacturing sector dominated FDI flows, and European and the US MNEs enjoyed higher productivity levels compared to host country firms. During the last decade the share of manufacturing in FDI flows has declined drastically. Currently the service sector (including non-financial services) dominates the FDI flows. Furthermore, several Asian firms (host country firms) enjoy higher productivity levels compared to MNEs. Despite these developments, scholars continue to use the methodology developed several decades earlier. The sophistication introduced in recent studies is mainly in the estimation procedures and not in the hypothesis. A ‘Brain Storming’ Session on ‘Changing Nature of FDI’ is being held during the 11th Annual Conference of the Knowledge Forum hosted by IIT Madras to re-examine these issues. This short note on the subject is to initiate the discussion. Short notes on the subject may be sent to: fgksindia@gmail.com and to editor@esocialsciences.org until November 2016.

Suggested Citation

  • N S Siddharthan, 2016. "Changing Nature of FDI: Need to Re-examine the Productivity Spillovers," Working Papers id:11316, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11316
    Note: Essays
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownload.aspx?fname=A2016911153122_19.docx&fcategory=Articles&AId=11316&fref=repec
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11316. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Padma Prakash (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.esocialsciences.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.