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Ghali, Sofiane; Karray, Zouhour - 2014

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Emergence of Innovative Manufacturing Firms Across Asian Countries

Singh, Lakhwinder - 2016

manufacturing firms of seven Asian countries - Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, China and India is based on …

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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change

Koch, Michael - 2019

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

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Horizontal and Vertical FDI : A Comparative Analysis of Technological Determinants

Franco, Chiara - 2010

The study analyzes the role played by technological determinants, using the approach of National System of Innovation (NSI), in enhancing or hampering Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) with different motivations, namely horizontal and vertical FDI. The empirical analysis is carried out using data...

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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change

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Foreign direct investment, productivity and the technology gap in African economies

Malikane, Christopher; Chitambara, Prosper - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 61-74

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative backwardness in a panel of 45 African countries over the period 1980-2012. We use two measures of relative backwardness, namely: the distance from technological frontier and the...

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On Welfare Reducing Technological Change in a North-South Framework

Benchekroun, Hassan - 2010

Northern firms with patented technology can export goods to Southern markets and incur tariff costs or choose FDI and avoid the tariff. We examine the welfare effects of intellectual property protection under this scenario. When it is beneficial to do so, the Southern government offers patent...

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Ownership and Technological Capabilities in Indonesia’s Automotive Parts Firms

Rasiah, Rajah - 2013

This paper seeks to examine how local automotive parts firms' technological capabilities have evolved vis-à-vis foreign firms following increased liberalization from the late 1990s. The evidence amassed shows that there were no obvious statistical differences in human resource and process...

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Drivers of FDI in the EU : regulatory distance and revealed technological advantage

Castelli, Chiara; Davies, Ronald B.; Ghodsi, Mahdi; … - 2025

This study examines the interplay between trade policy, in particular non-tariff measures (NTMs), and revealed technological comparative advantage (RTA) at the NUTS 2 level as drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) over time. Combining data from the Orbis database (Bureau Van Dijk), the NTMs...

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The diffusion of externalities from foreign direct investment : theory ahead of measurement

Kugler, Maurice - 2000

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