Export market participation, spillovers, and foreign direct investment in Australian food manufacturing

Shauna Phillips and Fredoun Z. Ahmadi-Esfahani
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Shauna Phillips: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia, Postal: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Fredoun Z. Ahmadi-Esfahani: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia, Postal: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

Agribusiness, 2010, vol. 26, issue 3, 329-347

Abstract: Generating a more outward looking sector has been one of the principal aims of agrifood policy in Australia for the past two decades. Australia's proximity to fast-growing economies of East Asia has been seen as a major source for export growth. Over the same time span, there has been an increase in foreign ownership in the food sector. Using a firm-level data set for 2005, we characterize the probability that a firm participates in exporting by a set of firm characteristics, including foreign ownership and spillovers from foreign-owned firms, and find that foreign ownership neither increases nor decreases the probability that a firm will be involved in exporting. [EconLit citations: Q170, Q130]. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Date: 2010
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