TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gorodnichenko, Yuriy
AU  - Svejnar, Jan
AU  - Terrell, Katherine
        TI  - When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
        PY  - 2013/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7824
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7824
        AB  - We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of domestic firms while horizontal and forward linkages show no consistent effect. We also examine how the strength of spillovers varies by sector, FDI source, business environment (corruption, red tape, level of development), firm's distance to the technological frontier, education of workers, and other firm- and country-specific characteristics.
        KW  - FDI
KW  - spillovers
KW  - transition economies
KW  - efficiency
        ER  -