Do Multinational Enterprises Affect Domestic Firms Productivity?
Filippo Reganati (filippo.reganati@uniroma1.it) and
Cesare Imbriani
Quaderni DSEMS from Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Matematiche e Statistiche, Universita' di Foggia
Abstract:
This work examines the main theoretical and empirical interpretations of the effects of FDI on the productivity of local firms and, in particular, the way in which productivity spillovers are related to regional differences. In studying the Italian manufacturing sector, using cross-sectional data, we found that the stronger presence of multinational enterprises increased the level of domestic productivity, but productivity spillovers were concentrated only in the north-western area of Italy. This indicates not only the existence of a geographic component in the spillovers from FDI but also the peculiarity of Italian manufacturing structure, where different models of production, such as the network enterprise model in the North-west, the industrial district model in the North-east and the backward model in the South, coexists.
Keywords: foreign direct investment; productivity spillovers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 14
Date: 2002-10
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Published in Studi Economici, nn. 78, 2002.
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