Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing

Chandrakanti Behera

Foreign Trade Review, 2025, vol. 60, issue 1, 83-108

Abstract: Using a rich firm-level panel dataset of Indian manufacturing over 2010–2018, this study aims to identify the spillover effects associated with foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we distinguish spillover effects into horizontal (Intra-industry linkage) and vertical (backward or downstream and forward or upstream Inter-industry linkages) FDI channels. We employ various semi-parametric methods to tackle the endogeneity issues in productivity estimation. We find that backward spillover from the downstream multinational enterprises is the only source of total factor productivity gains. However, the magnitude of negative forward–vertical linkage is larger than the positive backward–vertical effect. The analysis also broadly compares technology spillovers for domestic and all firms in the sector. Finally, we investigate productivity spillover across industries based on their technology intensity. Our findings suggest that industry heterogeneity is a key driver of FDI spillover. JEL Codes : F23, D24, O33, L1

Keywords: Foreign direct investment; TFP; technology transfer; industry heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/00157325231190509

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