Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to Productivity Spillovers? Firm Level Evidence from Indonesia

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1861-1876

  Suyanto, ^a   Salim, Ruhul A ^a   Bloch, Harry ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

FDI spillovers; frontier production function; Malmquist index; total factor productivity growth

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FIRM SIZE; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; PANEL DATA; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 70449120130     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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