Productivity growth, trade and FDI nexus: evidence from the Canadian manufacturing sector

Malick Souare ()

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2013, vol. 38, issue 5, 675-698

Abstract: Using the confined exponential and logistic models of technology diffusion, this paper investigates the roles played by international trade and FDI in explaining productivity growth through both technology transfer and domestic innovation, with the technology transfer also occurring independently. Using panel data on Canadian manufacturing industries, we first find a robust role for the autonomous and international trade embodied technology transfer in explaining TFP growth. Second, international trade and FDI (as well as research and development) all contribute to productivity growth through the rate of innovation. Finally, we find that the exponential and logistic models of technology diffusion may have different implications for the growth dynamics in a technologically lagging country. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

Keywords: Economic growth; TFP; Technology transfer; International trade; FDI; O30; O47; O570 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s10961-012-9259-6

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