Outward foreign direct investment and domestic performance: In search of a causal link

Arbeitspapier

The aim of this paper is to examine causal effects of outward foreign direct investment activities of corporations that start expanding abroad on a large number of domestic performance indicators. Our results indicate that there is no evidence in our data to show that FDI has statistically significant impact on productivity, employment and output. The only statistically significant result indicates that FDI causes positive growth in export intensity. On the other hand when we restrict our sample to Belgian manufacturing firms only, we do find that switching to OFDI causes a positive growth in TFP. This effect is coupled with an increase in wages and exports. On the other hand, we do not find any statistically significant evidence that internationalization of Belgian firms causes loss of employment for the unskilled worker as in other studies

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: NBB Working Paper ; No. 272

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
• Thema: multinational firms ; propensity score matching ; difference-in-differences ; Auslandsinvestition ; Auslandsverlagerung ; Internationale Geschäftsbeziehungen ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Induktive Statistik ; Belgien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dhyne, Emmanuel ; Sarisoy Guerin, Selen
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): National Bank of Belgium
• (wo): Brussels
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144484
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ