What is it about?
Whether technology gap (distance of establishment from frontier establishments in the industry) and foreign presence (within as well as across industries) individually as well as interactively influence TFP of establishments controlling for the effects of size and labour quality of establishments as well as market power in an industry.
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Why is it important?
one of the justifications for providing fiscal incentives to inward FDI in developing countries is productivity spillovers (or indirect technology transfer) from FDI and assessing the impact of spillovers contributes to evidence based policy formulation.
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This page is a summary of: FDI productivity spillovers and the technology gap in Malaysia's electrical and electronic industries, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, May 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/apel.12094.
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