Foreign ownership and plant productivity in the Thai automobile industry in 1996 and 1998: A conditional quantile analysis

Journal of Asian Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 321-353

  Ito, Keiko ^a  

^a ICSEAD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automobile industry; FDI; Multinational corporations; Productivity; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942597452     PISSN: 10490078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Aitken B.J. Harrison A.E. Do domestic firms benefit from direct foreign investment? Evidence from Venezuela American Economic Review 893 1999 605-618
2. Armstrong R.D. Frome E.L. Kung D.S. A revised simplex algorithm for the absolute deviation curve fitting problem Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation B8 2 1979 175-190
3. Arrow K.J. The economic implications of learning by doing Review of Economic Studies 29 1962 155-173
4. Baily, M. N., Hulten, C., & Campbell, D. (1992). Productivity dynamics in manufacturing plants. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, 187-267.
5. Buranathanung N. The organization of parts procurement in the Thai automobile industry Chulalongkorn Journal of Economics 81 1996 67-99
6. Caves D.W. Christensen L.R. Diewert W.E. Multilateral comparisons of output, input and productivity using superlative index numbers Economic Journal 92 1982 73-86
7. Caves R.E. (1996). Multinational enterprise and economic analysis (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. Cusumano M.A. Takeishi A. Supplier relations and management: A survey of Japanese, Japanese-transplant, and US auto plants Strategic Management Journal 12 1991 563-588
9. D'Agostino R.B. Balanger A. D'Agostino Jr. R.B. A suggestion for using powerful and informative tests of normality American Statistician 44 1990 316-321
10. Dimelis S. & Louri H. (2001). Foreign direct investment and efficiency benefits: A conditional quantile analysis. Discussion paper no. 2868, June, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.
11. Dunning J.H. (1988). Explaining international production. London: Unwin Hyman.
12. Farrell R. & Findlay C. (2001). Japan and the ASEAN4 automotive industry: Developments and inter-relationships in the regional automotive industry. Working Paper Series, vol. 2001-24, August, The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu.
13. FOURIN (2000). 2000 Asean, Taiwan Jidosha Buhin Sangyo [The auto parts industry in ASEAN and Taiwan, 2000]. Nagoya: FOURIN.
14. Gould W.W. Quantile regression with bootstrapped standard errors Stata Technical Bulletin 9 1992 19-21 Reprinted in Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints, 2, 137-139
15. Gould W.W. Interquantile and simultaneous-quantile regression Stata Technical Bulletin 38 1997 14-22 Reprinted in Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints, 7, 167-176
16. Grima S. & Görg H. (2002). Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions. Paper presented at the International Trade and Finance Association's 12th International Conference, May 29-June 2, 2002, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok.
17. Ito K. (2002a). Are foreign multinationals more efficient? Plant productivity in the Thai automobile industry. Working Paper Series, vol. 2002-19, July, The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu.
18. Ito K. (2002b). Foreign ownership and productivity in the Indonesian automobile industry: Evidence from establishment data for 1990-1999. Paper presented at the NBER 13th Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics, Productivity, June 20-22, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.
19. Jorgenson, D. W., & Griliches, Z. (1967). The explanation of productivity change. Review of Economic Studies, 34, 249-283. Reprinted in Jorgenson, D. W. (1995). Productivity: Postwar US economic growth, vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
20. Koenker R. Bassett Jr. G. Regression quantiles Econometrica 46 1 1978 33-50
21. Markusen J.R. (1991). The theory of the multinational enterprise: A common analytical framework. In: E. D. Ramstetter (Ed.), Direct foreign investment in Asia's developing economies and structural change in the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 11-32). Boulder: Westview Press.
22. Maruhashi H. (1995). Japanese subcontracting system in Thailand: A case study of the Thai automobile industry (sic). Master's Thesis, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok.
23. National Statistical Office (1999). Report of the 1997 Industrial Census: Whole Kingdom. National Statistical Office, Office of the Prime Minister, Bangkok.
24. National Statistical Office (2001). Report of the 1999 Industrial Survey: Whole Kingdom. National Statistical Office, Office of the Prime Minister, Bangkok.
25. Okamoto Y. Multinationals, production efficiency and spillover effects: The case of the US auto parts industry Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 135 1999 241-260
26. Okamoto Y. Sjöholm F. Productivity in the Indonesian automotive industry ASEAN Economic Bulletin 17 1 2000 60-73
27. Poapongsakorn N. & Wangdee C. (2000). The Thai automotive industry. ASEAN Automobile Report, available at http://www.asean-auto.org.
28. Ramstetter E.D. (2001). Labor productivity in foreign multinationals and local plants in Thai manufacturing, 1996 and 1998. Working Paper Series, vol. 2001-13, The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Economic Development, Kitakyushu.
29. Ramstetter E.D. (2002). Does technology differ in local plants and foreign multinationals in Thai manufacturing? Evidence from translog production functions for 1996 and 1998. Working Paper Series, vol. 2002-04, The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Economic Development, Kitakyushu.
30. Shapiro S.S. Francia R.S. An approximate analysis of variance test for normality Journal of the American Statistical Association 67 1972 215-216
31. Terdudomtham T. (1997). The automobile industry in Thailand. Bangkok: Thailand Development Research Institute.
32. Waseda Daigaku Shougakubu [Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan], & Zaidan-Hojin Keizai Kouhou Center (Eds.) (1995). Jidosha Sangyo no Gurobaru Senryaku: Chosen kara Kyosei e [The global strategy of the automobile industry: From challenge to cohabitation]. Tokyo: Chuo Keizai-sha.
33. White H. A heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimator and a direct test for heteroskedasticity Econometrica 48 1980 813-838
34. Yahata S. & Mizuno J. (1988). Nikkei Shinshutsu Kigyo to Genchi Kigyo to no Kigyo-kan Bungyo Kozo to Gijutsu Iten: Tai no Jidosha Sangyo wo Jirei to shite [The division of labor and technology transfer among Japanese affiliated firms and local firms: A case study on Thai automobile industry]. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies.