Foreign direct investment and spillovers: gradualism may be better

Juan Rojas
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Klaus Desmet

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: In contrast to the standard literature, we show that the presence of spillovers may justify temporarily restricting the inflow of foreign direct investment. Our argument is based on two stylized features of spillovers: first, technology transfers --- and subsequent spillovers --- are limited by the economy's absorptive capacity; and second, spillovers take time to materialize. By letting capital in more gradually, initial investment has the time to create spillovers --- and upgrade the economy's absorptive capacity --- before further investment occurs. This allows subsequent capital inflows to benefit from greater technology transfers. As a result, the economy converges to a steady state with a superior technology and a greater capital stock.

Keywords: Foreign; direct; investment; Spillovers; Gradualism; Liberalization; Absorptive; capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-01
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