Absorptive capacity and productivity spillovers From FDI: a threshold regression analysis

By Sourafel Girma. 2005

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An analysis of the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth (2009, background): “Theoretically, FDI has been shown to boost economic growth through technology transfer and diffusion (Dimelis, 2005; Schneider, 2005), spillover effects (Wang and Yu, 2007), productivity gains, and the introduction of new processes, managerial skills and know-how to host countries (Girma, 2005; Li a”
The potential for technology and knowledge transfers between foreign and local firms: A study of the construction industry in Ghana (2014, background): “The characteristics of local firms, with particular emphasis on their absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities, are important determinants of effective transfers (Blalock & Simon, 2009; Girma, 2005; Gooderham, 2007; Spencer, 2008).”
How and By How Much does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms (2008, background): “Girma (2005) observes that horizontal spillovers increase with absorptive capability up to a threshold level, beyond which the increase is much less pronounced.”
Fixed-Effect Panel Threshold Model using Stata (2015, background): “Girma (2005) found that the productivity beneﬁt from FDI increases with absorptive capacity until some threshold level, at which point it becomes less pronounced.”
Collecting the Pieces of the FDI Knowledge Spillovers Puzzle (2008, methodology): “Using a sample of 7,516 British companies Girma (2005) investigates the role of absorptive capacity in capturing knowledge spillovers from FDI.”
Heterogeneous MNC subsidiaries and technological spillovers: Explaining positive and negative effects in India (2010, methodology): “…spillovers in host economies (e.g. Blomström and Person, 1983; Blomström, 1986; Haddad and Harrison, 1993; Blomström and Sjoholm, 1999; Haskel et al., 2002; Kathuria, 2002; Liu and Wang, 2003; Javorcik, 2004; Alvarez and Molero, 2005; Girma, 2005; Chang and Xu, 2008; Javorcik and Spatareanu, 2008).”
Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy (2007, background): “The importance of absorptive capacity has been confirmed using observations on a panel of industries across thirteen OECD countries by Griffith, Redding and Van Reenen (2004), and on individual firms by Girma (2005).”
A spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model for panel data with asymmetric efficiency spillovers (2015, background): “A central feature of the SAR stochastic frontier which we develop is spatial e¢ ciency, or in other words, e¢ ciency spillovers, which complements the literature on estimating productivity spillovers (Chandra and Staiger, 2007; Girma, 2005; Takii, 2005; Girma and Wakelin, 2007; Girma et al., 2008).”
Determinant Factors of FDI Spillovers – What Do We Really Know? (2007, result): “The same result emerges from the studies of Cantwell (1989), Tsou and Liu (1998), Imbriani and Reganati (1999), Girma and Wakelin (2000) and Kanturia (1998). Flôres et al. (2002) and Proença et al. (2002) try to identify, for the Portuguese case, the range in terms of productivity within which spill”
Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of Foreign Direct Investment? A Gravity-Equation Approach (2010, background): “…income growth, although the effect is often found to be subject to the host country’s conditions, such as the level of education and technology (Borensztein, De Gregorio, & Lee, 1998; Girma, 2005; Li & Liu, 2005; Xu, 2000), and to characteristics of FDI (Todo & Miyamoto, 2006; and Javorcik, 2004).”
The Role of Foreign Technology and Indigenous Innovation in the Emerging Economies: Technological Change and Catching Up (2010, background): “Cross country studies find that there is a minimum necessary threshold level of human capital (Eaton & Kortum, 1995; Xu, 2000), and smaller firm-size or a lower share of skilled workers may hinder absorptive capacity (Girma, 2005).”