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Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity spillovers in Swedish Manufacturing

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Karpaty, Patrik () (Department of Business, Economics, Statistics and Informatics)
Lundberg, Lars (FIEF)

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Abstract

Based on a panel of data for Swedish manufacturing firms in 1990-2000, this paper

finds strong evidence for the existence of positive spillover effects from inward FDI.

The presence of foreign ownership in the same industry and region seems to enhance the total factor productivity of domestic firms. Moreover, the size of these FDI spillover effects seems to depend both on the nationality of the foreign MNF as well as on the absorptive capacity of the domestic firm, measured by its own R&D. It appears that this positive relationship between foreign presence and productivity cannot be explained as a consequence of reverse causality, i.e that FDI is attracted to highly productive regions and industries

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Paper provided by Örebro University, Swedish Business School in its series Working Papers with number 2004:2.

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Date of creation: 29 Sep 2004
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Keywords: Multinational firms; Productivity Spillovers; Foreign Direct Investment;

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F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
O30 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - General

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  1. Heyman, Fredrik & Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik & Sjöholm, Fredrik, 2006. "Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Dispersion," Working Paper Series 675, Research Institute of Industrial Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Ebersberger, Bernd & Lööf, Hans, 2004. "Multinational Enterprises, Spillovers, Innovation and Productivity," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 22, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies. [Downloadable!]
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