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Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
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Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions, we use a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Consistent with spillovers, we estimate a robust and significantly positive correlation between a domestic plant's TFP and the foreign-affiliate share of activity in that plant's industry. Typical estimates suggest that a 10-percentage-point increase in foreign presence in a U.K. industry raises the TFP of that industry's domestic plants by about 0.5%. We also use these estimates to calculate the per-job value of these spillovers at about £2,400 in 2000 prices ($4,300). These calculated values appear to be less than per-job incentives governments have granted in recent high-profile cases, in some cases several times less.
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- Authors
- Haskel, J. E., Pereira, S. C., & Slaughter, M. J.
- Venue
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2007-08
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 482-496
- ISSN
- 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9142
- OpenAlex
- W3122619127
- Cited by
- 935
- References
- 59
- FWCI
- 162.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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