Product Sophistication and Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-328245
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.32824

Eck, Katharina ; Huber, Stephan

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Item type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Publisher:	Institut für Ost und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS)
Place of Publication:	Regensburg
Other Series:	IOS Working Papers
Volume:	340
Date:	May 2014
Institutions:	Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie > Lehrstuhl für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, insbesondere Makroökonomie und Arbeitsmarkt (Prof. Dr. Enzo Weber)
Keywords:	Multinational Firms, Spillovers, Sophistication, Technological Change
Dewey Decimal Classification:	300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Partially
Item ID:	32824

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Abstract

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries is often associated with higher economic growth due to knowledge and technology spillovers to local firms. One way how FDI speeds up growth is that it facilitates the manufacturing of more sophisticated products by local firms. So far, firm-level evidence is missing on how the presence of multinational firms affects the product ...