Operational and investment efficiency of investment trust companies: Do foreign firms outperform domestic firms?

Does direct foreign investment affect domestic firms credit constraints ? ∗

Firms in developing countries typically cite credit constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. By bringing in scarce capital, it is often argued that foreign direct investment may ease domestic firms’ credit constraints. Alternatively, if foreign firms borrow heavily from domestic banks, they may exacerbate domestic firms’ credit constraints by crowding them out of domestic ca...

Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment? Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers. It then prov...

Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? Evidence from Venezuela

Governments often promote inward foreign investment to encourage technology “spillovers” from foreign to domestic firms. Using panel data on Venezuelan plants, we find that foreign equity participation is positively correlated with plant productivity (the “own-plant” effect), but this relationship is only robust for small enterprises. We then test for spillovers from joint ventures to plants wi...

Small Firms’ Investment:

Outward foreign direct investment and technical efficiency: Evidence from Taiwan's manufacturing firms

This paper uses firm-level panel data from Taiwan’s manufacturing industries from 1987 to 2000 to investigate the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on the technical efficiency of the OFDI firms. Propensity score matching is used to construct an appropriate group of non-OFDI firms to compare with OFDI firms, and a metafrontier framework is subsequently used to calculate comparab...