Spillovers from Multinationals to Heterogeneous Domestic Firms: Evidence from Hungary

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Firms cluster their economic activities to exploit technological and informational spillovers from other firms. Spillovers through the entry of multinational firms can be particularly beneficial to domestic firms because of their technological superiority. Yet, the importance of foreign firm's spillovers might depend on two key features of domestic firms: their productivity level and its export status. In line with theories and empirical evidence on the absorptive capacity of firms, we argue on the basis of an empirical analysis of Hungarian firms that larger and more productive firms are more able to reap spillovers from multinationals firms than smaller firms. The export status, in contrast, is of minor importance.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-963-200-100-5
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2006/16

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
• Subject: FDI ; multinationals ; productivity ; spillover ; regions ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Auslandsinvestition ; Spillover-Effekt ; Produktivität ; Schätzung ; Ungarn

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Békés, Gábor ; Kleinert, Jörn ; Toubal, Farid
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
• (where): Budapest
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108106
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET