The authors review the empirical literature that studies the relationship between foreign
direct investment, productivity, and growth using aggregate data and focus on two questions …

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic
analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what …

Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) hoping that knowledge
brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity …

Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms that penetrate foreign markets reduce
entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning effects or establishing …

The manufacturing sectors of developing countries have traditionally been relatively
protected. They have also been subject to heavy regulation, much of which has favored …

摘要本文运用计量模型对广东省!""#—!""" 年$" 个行业和%! 个城市数据进行实证分析,
考察外商直接投资(&'() 技术溢出效应与经济增长的相关关系. 结果显示: 广东省&'(外溢过程中 …

This paper reviews the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), productivity, and
technology upgrading, with a focus on macroeconomic and microeconomic models. It …

This paper contributes an estimation framework to measure both technological and linkage
externalities from foreign direct investment (FDI). Empirical research dealt mainly with intra …

This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of
local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: A competition effect which deters entry of …

Trade theories based on increasing returns have two predictions for regional economies:
employment concentrates in industry centres, and regional nominal wages are decreasing …