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Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers : Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

Greenstone, Michael; Hornbeck, Richard; Moretti, Enrico - 2010

We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the …

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Hold Your Enemies Closer : In Search of Positive Impacts of Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Firms

Lu, Yi - 2009

Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect) have different degrees of attenuation with distance....

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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters : evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014

In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers … from clustering. The effects of these spillovers are found to be particularly large for foreign-owned firms. Our results …

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Clustering, competition, and spillover effects : evidence from Cambodia

Chhair, Sokty; Newman, Carol - 2014

spillovers for informal firms and firms in the manufacturing sector but they are not of a large enough magnitude to outweigh the …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Flows : Evidence from Patent Citations

Alazzawi, Shireen - 2004

Knowledge flows tend to be highly geographically localized. This has lead researchers to try to find a means through which this localization effect can be minimized. Foreign Direct Investment has been proposed as a possible medium that enhances the ability of nations to exchange knowledge about...

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Knowledge Spillovers in Biotechnology : Sources and Incentives

Audretsch, David B.; Stephan, Paula E. - 2013

This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions we suggest lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent...

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Social interaction and geographic diffusion of iron-biofortified beans in Rwanda

Funes, Jose; Sun, Laixiang; Sedano, Fernando; Baiocchi, … - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 53 (2022) 4, pp. 503-528

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FDI technology spillovers and spatial diffusion in the People's Republic of China

Lin, Mi; Kwan, Yum-keung - 2013

This paper investigates the geographic extent of foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and diffusion in … spatial dimensions of FDI spillovers. Our empirical results show that FDI presence (measured as employment share) in a … location. Nevertheless, these negative intra-regional spillovers are found to be locally bounded. Domestic private firms enjoy …

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Capturing social network effects in technology adoption : the spatial diffusion of hybrid rice in Bangladesh

Ward, Patrick; Pede, Valerien O. - In: The Australian journal of agricultural and resource … 59 (2015) 2, pp. 225-241

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Representing spatial technology diffusion in an energy system optimization model

Leibowicz, Benjamin D.; Krey, Volker; Grübler, Arnulf - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 103 (2016), pp. 350-363

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