Local intermediate inputs and the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment

Hiau Looi Kee and Hiau Looi Kee
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No 7050, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms'performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms'performance, through the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) firms. An exogenous EU trade policy shock is shown to cause some FDI firms in Bangladesh to expand, which led to better performance of the domestic firms that shared their suppliers. Overall, the shared supplier spillovers of FDI explain 1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms.

Keywords: International Trade and Trade Rules; Trade Policy; Rules of Origin; Trade and Multilateral Issues; Investment and Investment Climate; Private Sector Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-01
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