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Export market participation, spillovers, and foreign direct investment in Australian food manufacturing

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  • Shauna Phillips

    (Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia)

  • Fredoun Z. Ahmadi-Esfahani

    (Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia)

Abstract

Generating a more outward looking sector has been one of the principal aims of agrifood policy in Australia for the past two decades. Australia's proximity to fast-growing economies of East Asia has been seen as a major source for export growth. Over the same time span, there has been an increase in foreign ownership in the food sector. Using a firm-level data set for 2005, we characterize the probability that a firm participates in exporting by a set of firm characteristics, including foreign ownership and spillovers from foreign-owned firms, and find that foreign ownership neither increases nor decreases the probability that a firm will be involved in exporting. [EconLit citations: Q170, Q130]. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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  • Shauna Phillips & Fredoun Z. Ahmadi-Esfahani, 2010. "Export market participation, spillovers, and foreign direct investment in Australian food manufacturing," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(3), pages 329-347.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:agribz:v:26:y:2010:i:3:p:329-347
    DOI: 10.1002/agr.20254
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