Service firm performance and foreign ownership

Jieun Choi

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, vol. 29, issue 5, 1119-1143

Abstract: Little is known about the performance of service firms and its relations with foreign direct investment (FDI), in part due to methodological and conceptual challenges in measuring service performance. This article suggests two possible measures of service firm performance: total factor productivity (TFP) and markups, with modification needed to improve those measures for the service sector. Using these measures, it examines service firm performance from 1997 to 2007 in Tunisia, where the service sector accounts for 60% of GDP but faces high protection and complex entry barriers. Then, it investigates whether variations in performance can be explained by FDI. It finds that FDI firms have higher TFP but lower markups than local firms, with significant variations across sub-service sectors.

JEL-codes: D22 D24 D40 F23 L11 L22 L80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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