Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers

By C. Newman, John Rand, Theodore Talbot, F. Tarp. 2015

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This paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of host country domestic firms. We rely on a specially designed survey of over 4000 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, and separate out productivity gains along the supply chain (obtained through direct transfers of knowledge/technology between linked firms) from productivity effects through indirect FDI spillovers. In addition to identifying indirect vertical productivity spillovers from FDI, our results show that there are productivity gains associated with direct linkages between foreign-owned and domestic firms along the supply chain not captured by commonly used measures of spillovers. This includes evidence of productivity gains through forward linkages for domestic firms which receive inputs from foreign-owned firms.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. John Rand
2. F. Tarp
3. Iraj Hashi
4. Mehtap Hisarciklilar
5. Edvard Orlić
6. C. Newman
7. D. Roodman
8. Markus Brückner

In Strategy and Management

1. Iraj Hashi
2. Mehtap Hisarciklilar
3. Edvard Orlić
4. F. Tarp
5. C. Newman
6. John Rand
7. D. Herzer

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Social Responsibility in a Competitive Business Environment (2020, methodology): “Note that using the same data, Newman et al. (2018) find no systematic relationship between CSR adoption and industry”
• Cross sectoral FDI spillovers and their impact on manufacturing productivity (2018, background): “As evident from Figure A1 in Appendix A, an alternative explanation is that foreign firms may have gained a dominant market position in upstream sectors such as electrical and optical equipment industry, transportation and other machineries, enabling them to gain market power and better bargaining p”