Potential and Actual FDI Spillovers in Global Value Chains

• Authors: Deborah Winkler

Abstracts

EN

Using unique survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper first evaluates how foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to generate positive spillovers for local suppliers. It finds that foreign firms outperform domestic producers on several indicators, but have fewer linkages with the local economy and offer less supplier assistance, resulting in offsetting effects on the spillover potential. The paper also studies the relationship between foreign investor characteristics and linkages with the local economy as well as assistance extended to local suppliers. It finds that foreign investor characteristics matter for both. Additionally, this paper examines the role of suppliers’ absorptive capacities in determining the intensity of their linkages with multinationals. The results indicate that several supplier characteristics matter, but these effects also depend on the length of the supplier relationship. Finally, the paper assesses whether assistance or requirements from the multinational influence spillovers on suppliers. The results confirm the existence of positive effects of assistance (including technical audits, joint product development, and technology licensing) on foreign direct investment spillovers, while we find no evidence for demand effects.

Keywords

EN

Foreign direct investment; vertical spillovers; linkages; global value chains; absorptive capacity; transmission channels; agri-business; apparel; mining; foreign firm characteristics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Journal of Banking and Financial Economics
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(10)
• Pages: 5-44

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Deborah Winkler

• World Bank, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2018.2.1

Biblioteka Nauki

2040962