Multinational Companies, Technology Spillovers and Plant Survival

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl ()

Chapter 16 in Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development, 2016, pp 289-303 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: How does the presence of multinational companies affect plant swvival in the host country? We postulate that multinational companies can impact positively on plant swvival through technology spillovers. We examine the nature of the effect of multinationals using a Cox proportional hazard model, which we estimate using plant-level data for Irish manufacturing industries. Our results show that the presence of multinationals has a life-enhancing effect only on indigenous plants in high-tech industries, suggesting the presence of technology spillovers. In contrast, multinationals compete with each other in low-tech sectors in the host country.

Keywords: Multinational Enterprises; Foreign Direct Investment; Spillovers; Development; Host Country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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