Technology gaps, absorptive capacity and the impact of inward investments on productivity of European firms *

By Davide Castellani, Antonello Zanfei. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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A Meta-Analysis of FDI and Productivity Spillovers in Developing Countries (2017, background): “…Findlay, 1978; Cohen and Levinthal, 1989; Wang and Blomström, 1992) and the contrasting empirical evidence (see Kokko, 1994; Kathuria, 2001, 2010; Castellani and Zanfei, 2003) over how the domestic firms’ technological level influences the outcome of a given spillover estimate indicates a…”
Productivity and International Trade: Firm Level Evidence from a Small Open Economy (2008, unknown): “Chaney (2008) and Helpman et al.”
Impact of Firm Heterogeneity on Direct and Spillover Effects of FDI: Micro Evidence from Ten Transition Countries (2013, unknown): “4 Castellani and Zanfei (2007) claim that modelling MNCs' presence as the share of total activities should control for the size of the industry; if this is not done, then estimates of externalities tend to be biased towards zero. Keller and Yeaple (2003) and Gőrg and Strobl (2001) also put high impo”
Does Foreign Direct Investment Generate Economic Growth? A New Empirical Approach Applied to Spain (2018, background): “Castellani and Zanfei (2003) report no effect of FDI on productivity in Spain and France, but a positive effect in Italy.”
Collecting the Pieces of the FDI Knowledge Spillovers Puzzle (2008, background): “Absorptive capacity as a relative concept also seems to make sense intuitively: as Castellani and Zanfei (2003) show, high absolute levels of TFP(AC) may still be accompanied by large technology gaps if foreign ﬁrms in the sector also exhibit extremely high (average) TFP levels.”
Human Mobility and International Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from High-tech Small and Medium Enterprises in an Emerging Market (2010, background): “The larger the technology gap, the more the laggard firms learn from leaders (Driffield, 2001; Castellani and Zanfei, 2003) although the presence of cultural and cognitive barriers mean that domestic firms may gain limited benefits from FDI spillovers (Flores et al.”
Why is there a lack of evidence on knowledge spillovers from foreign direct investment (2018, unknown): “Toth and Semjen, 1999 (Hungary) Acquisitions source more locally than greenfield entities Smarzynska, 2003 (Lithuania) No evidence that acquisitions source more locally than greenfield entities Aitken and Harrison (1999), Djankov and Hoekman (2000), Harris and Robinson (2002), Demir and Su (2016), O”
How Domestic and Foreign Firms Differ and Why Does it Matter (2004, unknown): “If gaps are of medium size, benefits derived from FO firms are likely to be high in terms of technology spillovers (Girma et al., 2001; Castellani and Zanfei, 2002).”