Panel Data Evidence on Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Measures of Backward and Forward Linkages

Pavel Vacek
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Pavel Vacek: Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/

No 2010/19, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: I examine whether foreign direct investment increases the productivity of manufacturing firms. I test the proposition that local firms benefit from supplying multinational firms (spillovers through backward linkages) and by purchasing inputs from multinationals (spillovers through forward linkages). The existing literature on productivity spillovers has relied on industry-level proxies for spillovers. I identify spillovers directly at the firm level. I have conducted field work in the Czech manufacturing sector and built a unique data set that enabled me to construct firm-level measures of backward and forward linkages. My results provide strong support for the existence of productivity spillovers through backward linkages.

Keywords: FDI; spillovers; forward–backward linkages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48pages
Date: 2010-08, Revised 2010-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff, nep-ifn, nep-sbm and nep-tra
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