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Presented by Gilbert Mbara and Elizabeth Rivard

Do Domestic Firms Learn How to Export From Multinationals? And Does Exporting Increase Productivity? A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms. Presented by Gilbert Mbara and Elizabeth Rivard. Channels for Export Spillovers . Information externalities Demonstration effects

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Presented by Gilbert Mbara and Elizabeth Rivard

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  1. Do Domestic Firms Learn How to Export From Multinationals? And Does Exporting Increase Productivity? A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms Presented by Gilbert Mbara and Elizabeth Rivard

  2. Channels for Export Spillovers • Information externalities • Demonstration effects • Competition effects

  3. Conclusions: Do domestic firms learn to export from multinationals? • Yes • Presence of foreign MNEs influences export orientation of domestic firms • Main channel is competition

  4. Conclusions-Does Exporting Increase Productivity? • Exporters are larger and more productive than non-exporters • Exporters self-select • Exporting may boost productivity

  5. Results from Other Research • FDI and R&D have a positive impact on the productivity of domestic firms; FDI, local technology purchase, and outward foreign investment are substitutes to R&D activity (Taiwan) • Other papers found that there was not a strong positive relationship between FDI and positive spillovers

  6. Bibliography • Foreign direct investment, R&D and spillover efficiency: Evidence from Taiwan's manufacturing firms. Authors: Yih-Chyi Chuang a; Chi-Mei Lin a Journal of Development Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4 April 1999, pages 117 - 137 • Much Ado about Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment? Holger Görg and David Greenaway. IADB. 2003. • Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages. Beata Smarzynska Javorcik. 2003

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