Openness and the Efficiency of FDI: A Panel Stochastic Production Frontier Study

Farrokh Nourzad ()

International Advances in Economic Research, 2008, vol. 14, issue 1, 25-35

Abstract: This paper uses a stochastic translog production frontier to estimate technical inefficiency indices whose conditional mean is specified as a function of FDI and its interaction with openness of the economy. The model is estimated using an annual panel of 46 countries for the years, 1981–2001. The results suggest that increased FDI increases potential output in both developed and developing countries with the effect being more profound in the former. It is also found that increased FDI reduces technical inefficiencies the more open is the economy but that this effect holds only for developed economies. Thus qualified support is found for the “Bhagwati hypothesis” as the results reveal that the efficiency–enhancing effect of FDI depends not only on openness but also on the degree of development of the host country. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2008

Keywords: Stochastic production frontier; FDI; Openness; Growth and development; C10; 010 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/s11294-007-9128-5

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