Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Direct Investment and Plant Productivity in Indonesia

By Jens Matthias Arnold, B. Javorcik. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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The effect of investor origin on firm performance: Domestic and foreign direct investment in the United States (2011, methodology): “…and firm performance (Djankov and Hoekman, 2000; Conyon et al., 2001, 2002; Harris and Robinson, 2003; Bertrand and Zitouna, 2005; Girma, 2005; Benfratello and Sembenelli, 2006; Fukao et al., 2006; Girma and Görg, 2007a,b; Heymann et al., 2007; Arnold and Javorcik, 2009, just to name a few).”
Export upgrading and growth: the prerequisite of domestic embeddedness (2013, background): “1For a review of the research documenting the superior performance of foreign affiliates see Arnold and Javorcik (2009). 2Firms can engage in both processing and ordinary trade activities simultaneously.”
Cross-Border M&As and Innovative Activity of Acquiring and Target Firms (2016, background): “…of the empirical literature on cross-border M&As has focused on the effects of foreign ownership on productivity (see, for instance, Chen, 2011; Arnold and Javorcik, 2009), a recent strand of the literature emphasizes innovation as a key determinant of multinationals' productivity advantage…”
Determinants of Horizontal Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis (2013, background): “(There is now solid evidence that FDI directly increases the productivity of the acquired firms; see Arnold & Javorcik, 2009, for the case of Indonesia.)”
Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up (2013, background): “…domestically and foreign owned firms do not seem to diminish over time (Blomstrom (1988), Haddad and Harrison (1993), Aitken and Harrison (1999), Arnold and Javorcik (2009), Estrin et al. (2009)).1 To the extent that foreign owned firms embody the technological frontier, one can interpret this…”
Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production (2012, background): “ln kj = ssurvivalkj zMj + ssurvivalkj ; (11)”
Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy (2013, neutral): “Models (3) and (6) are run using only data for France, Spain and Italy and country Dummies are included only for the latter countries.”
Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries? (2012, background): “However, a larger size of foreign affiliates may be a reflection of their superior productivity and thus a direct effect of their ownership status per se (see Arnold and Javorcik 2009).”
FDI Spillovers and Time Since Foreign Entry (2014, positive): “Arnold and Javorcik (2009) show for Indonesia that acquired firms have higher sales, fixed assets, employment and productivity immediately after acquisition.”
Place, space, and geographical exposure: Foreign subsidiary survival in conflict zones (2013, neutral): “…has been widely used in international economics to evaluate, for example, the effects of exporting and acquisitions on firm performance and returns to scale (Arnold & Javorcik, 2009), and of outward FDI on the decision to invest in tangible assets and R&D at home (Egger & Pfaffermayr, 2004).”