relationship between the productivity of the host cities and FDI spillovers. The main findings are as follows. First, significant … positive impacts of FDI on the local city's growth exist and increase over time, while spatial spillovers of FDI on growth … growth. Third, inclusion of FDI raises the speed of conditional convergence of economic growth in YRD and PRD (for the case …

The focus of our contribution is to shed light on the importance of firm agglomerations and FDI as drivers of firm … behavior with respect to external economies (correcting for the endogeneity of the FDI variables and for sample selection … these agglomeration economies differ substantially between Italian firms and firm which invest in active or passive FDI. We …

The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the … economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the host countries, whereas the second studies the economic factors …/conditions in the host countries that pull in FDI flows. The purpose of this paper is to add to this latter dimension of the …

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver … analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained from applying several purpose built surveys among FDI and domestic … nature of technology transfers between FDI firms and local suppliers and I identify statistically factors that influence the …

out by some entrepreneurs and their young businesses. In this study, we analyze the extent to which differences in FDI and … GEM data and other secondary sources for the period 2005-2009, we found that the exposure to higher flows of inward FDI at … higher flows of outward FDI or higher levels of accumulated knowledge at regional level has no impact. The results also show …

This paper explores the role of FDI-spillover prevention costs in the strategic choice for a MNE of a developed country … such as Japan about whether it perform FDI to an emerging economy such as Russia and China and about a degree of FDI …, and also shows how endogenizing spillovers affect the home firm fs decision on plant location. In the m-FDI …

The foreign direct investments (FDI) spillovers are probably the most extensively analyzed channel of knowledge … well as policy makers increasingly treat FDI spillovers as very or the most important development effect for host country … Data consists on the inflow of FDI at the regional level. The data is collected and published by the Czech National bank …

as foreign direct investment (FDI); import and export; absorptive capacity and geographic proximity. There is a vast …