Not Every Kind of Outward FDI Increases Parent Firm Performance: The Case of New EU Member States

Joze Damijan, Crt Kostevc and Matija Rojec

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2017, vol. 53, issue 1, 74-97

Abstract: Using a large firm-level dataset we investigate what kind of firms from new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) tend to invest abroad (testing of self-selection hypothesis), and what is the impact of outward FDI on their productivity (testing of learning-by-investing hypothesis). We find that the best firms tend to self-select into outward FDI. There is also a positive effect of outward FDI on productivity growth of investing firms from CEECs, the strongest being in the case of Estonia, Romania, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The positive impact of becoming a first-time foreign investor is relatively long lasting, but comes into effect only in investments in Western European or other CEECs and in the case of manufacturing subsidiaries.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2016.1149059

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