Productivity spillovers through vertical linkages: Evidence from 17 OECD countries

Jürgen Bitzer (), Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg ()

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 99, issue 2, pages 328-331

Abstract: We use industry-level data for OECD countries and investigate the importance of horizontal and vertical spillovers from multinationals. There is evidence for spillovers through backward linkages for all countries. This effect is much higher for CEEC than other OECD countries.

Date: 2008

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