Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred: Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies
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Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred: Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies
Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred: Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies
Abstract
Although the theoretical literature has identified various sizeable benefits from foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, the empirical literature has been unable to establish a positive and significant impact of FDI on the rates of economic growth of host countries. One reason for this difficulty is that theory equates FDI to technology transferred, while in most countries and regions of the world FDI encompasses an array of arrangements that goes well beyond pure technology transfer. This paper tests for the effects of FDI on growth in a set of countries in which FDI is pure technology transferred: the 25 Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union transition countries between 1990 and 1998. Our main finding is that, in this more appropriate setting, FDI has a positive and significant impact on economic growth as theory predicts.
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Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred: Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies
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