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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms

In: MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND HOST COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT

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  • Sourafel Girma
  • Yundan Gong
  • Holger Görg
  • Sandra Lancheros

Abstract

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms’ productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms’ productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms into account. To do so,we relax a fundamental assumption made in empirical studies examining a direct casual effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no interactions between firms. Based on our approach, we have able to combine direct and indirect effects of foreign ownership and calculate the total effect of foreign firms on local productivity. Our results show that all these effects vary with the level of foreign presence within a cluster, an important findIng for the academic literature and policy debate on the benefits of attracting foreign owned firms.

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  • Sourafel Girma & Yundan Gong & Holger Görg & Sandra Lancheros, 2016. "Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND HOST COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT, chapter 12, pages 227-239, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814749237_0012
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    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • C19 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Other

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