Productivity convergence and foreign ownership at the establishment level
By Rachel Griffith, Steve Redding, Helen Simpson. 2002
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This Paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important, suggesting the existence of technology spillovers. Foreign multinationals make up a significant proportion of establishments at the technological frontier, and therefore make a contribution to productivity growth through technology transfer. We also find evidence that increased foreign presence within an industry raises the speed of convergence to the technological frontier.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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In Economics and Econometrics
- G. Maffini
- Rachel Griffith
- Michael P. Devereux
- Helen Simpson
- Steve Redding
- G. Nicoletti
- G. Cette
- Jacques Mairesse
Citations in the corpus
- Foreign ownership and productivity: new evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab (2004, background): “For a broader analysis of absorptive capacity and technology transfer, see Cameron (1996), Cameron, Proudman and Redding (1998), and Griffith et al. (2003), (2004).”
- The Impact of Taxation on the Location of Captial, Firms and Profit: a Survey of Empirical Evidence (2007, background): “Griffith et al (2002) use the same UK dataset to investigate whether there has convergence in productivity towards the technological frontier.”
- Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence For OECD Countries (2013, background): “Firm-level evidence has generally supported the idea that competitive pressures are a driver of productivity enhancing innovation and adoption (Geroski, 1995a, 1995b; Nickell, 1996; Nickell et al., 1997; Blundell et al., 1999; Griffith et al., 2002; Haskel et al., 2007; Aghion et al., 2004), especia”
- Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States (2003, unknown): “Thus, this result confirms the finding of Griffith, Redding, and Simpson (2003) who show that it is the low-productivity domestic establishments that benefit from technology transferred by foreign-owned subsidiaries (Griffith, Redding, and Simpson 2003, Table 4, column (3)).”