Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are … conclusions regarding the existence of FDI-related spillovers. Using the standard measure employed in the literature we fail to … find robust evidence for spillovers through backward linkages. However, when we use alternative measures of backward …