Inward investment, transaction linkages and productivity spillovers

Nigel Driffield, Max Munday () and Annette Roberts

Papers in Regional Science, 2004, vol. 83, issue 4, 699-722

Abstract: The article examines the extent to which foreign manufacturing firms in the UK promote productivity growth in the domestically owned manufacturing sector through their buying and supplying relationships. Evidence for intra- and inter-regional externalities from the presence of foreign manufacturing, and intra- and inter-industry effects is brought to light. Externalities in the domestic sector are most noticeable where foreign manufacturing sells to domestic manufacturing. These externalities are, however, not wholly robust to different specifications of spatial dependence. The findings are positioned in a debate, which has tended to view backward (as opposed to forward) linkages from multinationals to domestically owned supply bases as a critical driver of indirect economic benefits. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004

Keywords: Productivity spillovers; foreign manufacturing; input-output tables; spatial dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (15)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Inward investment, transaction linkages and productivity spillovers (2004)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:presci:v:83:y:2004:i:4:p:699-722

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... cience/journal/10110

DOI: 10.1007/s10110-004-0224-0

Access Statistics for this article

Papers in Regional Science is currently edited by Raymond J.G.M. Florax

More articles in Papers in Regional Science from Springer, Regional Science Association International Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().