Welfare gains from Foreign Direct Investment through technology transfer to local suppliers

By Garrick Blalock, Paul J. Gertler. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces (2013, background): “…to increase the existing level of knowledge through labor training, skills acquisition, and the introduction of alternative management practices as well as new inputs and technologies (see Cuadros et al., 2004; Blalock and Gertler, 2008; Kugler, 2006; Kemeny, 2010, and Alguacil et al., 2011).”
The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review (2016, neutral): “Thanks to a detailed panel of Indonesian manufacturers firms, Blalock and Veloso (2007) showed that firms in industries supplying importintensive sectors had higher productivity growth than other firms.”
Multinational firms, exclusivity, and backward linkages (2007, background): “A multinational might (1) help prospective suppliers set up production capacities; (2) provide technical assistance/information to raise the quality of suppliers’ products and/or to facilitate innovations; or (3) provide training and help in management and organization.”
Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers (2015, background): “3 For recent examples see Barrios et al. (2011), Blalock and Gertler (2008), Bwaly (2006), Damijan et al. (2008), Javorcik (2004), and Kugler (2006), all of whom find no evidence of horizontal spillovers.”
A Meta-Analysis of FDI and Productivity Spillovers in Developing Countries (2017, background): “For developing countries, the first set of empirical study is by Blomström and Persson in the 1983. This early contribution is for Mexican plants and reported that FDI has a significant positive effect on productivity of domestic-owned firms. In a similar vein, Blomström (1986), for Mexican manufact”
Economic upgrading through global value chain participation: which policies increase the value-added gains? (2017, background): “1), including Blalock and Gertler’s (2008) widely cited study on Indonesian manufacturing firms that confirms the positive backward spillovers. In a comprehensive meta-analysis, Havranek and Irsova (2011) took into account 3,626 estimates from 55 studies on vertical spillovers, and found evidence of”
Collecting the Pieces of the FDI Knowledge Spillovers Puzzle (2008, background): “In this case interventionist government policy could be warranted, as Blalock and Gertler (2008) note.”
Do local manufacturing firms benefit from transactional linkages with multinational enterprises in China? (2009, methodology): “Blalock and Gertler (2007) focus only on horizontal and backward linkages, not forward linkages.”
Intra- and Inter-industry Externalities from Foreign Direct Investment in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: New Evidence from Mexican Regions (2008, background): “The recognition of the importance of this dimension translates into distinguishing between intra- and inter-industry FDI externalities (e.g., Blalock & Gertler, 2008; Driffield, Munday, & Roberts, 2004; Smarzynska, 2004).”
Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development (2011, neutral): “18 It is worth noting that the estimated response of US multinationals to IPR reform documented in Branstetter et al. (2006) and Branstetter et al.”
Cross sectoral FDI spillovers and their impact on manufacturing productivity (2018, background): “24 absorptive capacity as an enabling factor for FDI spillovers (Crespo and Fontoura, 2007; Blalock and Gertler, 2008; Damijan et al., 2013).”
Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Direct Investment and Plant Productivity in Indonesia (2009, background): “Although the evidence of such spillovers is mixed (Haddad and Harrison 1993, Aitken and Harrison 1999), some studies with a focus on vertical spillovers have identified positive effects of FDI further down the value chain (Javorcik 2004), also in Indonesia (Blalock and Gertler 2008).”
Roll Out the Red Carpet and They Will Come: Investment Promotion and FDI Inflows† (2011, background): “1 See studies by Javorcik (2004a), Blalock and Gertler (2008), Javorcik and Spatareanu (2008, 2009, 2011); and literature reviews by Görg and Strobl (2001) and Görg and Greenaway (2004).”
Does inward foreign direct investment improve the innovative performance of local firms (2013, background): “…inward FDI can occur through the intraorganizational provisions of intangible assets from a parent firm to its foreign affiliates (Hobday and Rush, 2007) or through contract between foreign entrants and their local suppliers (Blalock and Gertler, 2008; Haskel et al., 2007; Keller and Yeaple, 2009).”