Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4259 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1416
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and country level data for 17 OECD countries over the period 1973 to 2001. Controlling for national and international knowledge spillovers we argue that effects of FDI work through direct compositional effects as well as changing competition in the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a country's stock of outward FDI is, on average, negatively related to productivity. however, again there is substantial heterogeneity in the effect across OECD countries.
Subjects: 
Inward FDI
Outward FDI
Productivity
Competition
Foreign direct investment
JEL: 
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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