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Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: What If Productivity is No Longer a Black Box?

South East Asian Journal of Management

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Title Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: What If Productivity is No Longer a Black Box?
 
Creator Toan Thang Tran; Economics Department, the University of Essex
 
Subject Finance
 
Description While the positive productivity spillover from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to domestic owned firms in host countries is unequivocally emphasized in theory, the empirical evidence is contradictory. This paper, based on firm level data in Vietnam (enterprise census, 2000-2005), provides more inside on that. Using time-varying stochastic frontier approach, the study decomposed the change of productivity into technical change, technical efficiency change and scale efficiency change. The evidence from estimating the spillovers in each corresponding components suggest that horizontal FDI bring negative spillovers, mainly to technical change but positive spillovers to technical efficiency. Vertical FDI also have mixed impacts to domestic owned firm’s productivity.Keywords: Stochastic frontier model, foreign direct investment, productivity spillover, panel data
 
Publisher Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia
 
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Date 2013-07-10
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/1792
 
Source The South East Asian Journal of Management; Vol 5, No 1 (2011): April 2011; 1-18
 
Language en
 
Coverage South East Asia
2000-2005
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