Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework

Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It...

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Main Authors: Farole, Thomas, Winkler, Deborah
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washingon, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16386