Tough Love: Do Czech Suppliers Learn from their Relationships with Multinationals?* |
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Authors: | Beata S Javorcik Mariana Spatareanu |
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Institution: | 1. University of Oxford, OX1 3UQ, Englandbeata.javorcik@economics.ox.ac.uk;2. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USAmarianas@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
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Abstract: | Countries strive to attract foreign direct investment hoping that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic producers. While the literature has cast doubt on the existence of spillovers within industries, it has found evidence of spillovers from multinationals to the supplying sectors. However, the existing studies rely on industry‐level proxies rather than information on actual relationships between suppliers and multinationals. This study goes one step further by employing a unique dataset from the Czech Republic where such relationships can be identified. It finds evidence consistent with both high productivity firms having a higher probability of supplying multinationals as well as suppliers learning from their relationships with multinationals. |
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Keywords: | FDI spillovers vertical spillovers multinational suppliers productivity Czech Republic F23 O33 |
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