2003-11-10
IDE NA ECONOMIA. Já aqui tínhamos dado notícia do seminário que o Departamento de Economia da Universidade do Minho organiza na próxima quarta-feira às 12 horas. Pois bem, chega-nos agora o resumo da comunicação de Helen Louri, da Athens University of Economics and Business, com o título "Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: Which Firms Really Benefit?": "Foreign direct investment is thought to contribute to host economies by increasing their efficiency either directly or through technology diffusion. Such efficiency benefits are neither equally produced by foreign firms nor equally distributed to all domestic firms. The special question addressed in this study is related to how differentiated such effects are depending on size and degree of (foreign) ownership. Based on a sample of 3,742 manufacturing firms operating in Greece in 1997, it is found that, while it is large, majority-held foreign firms that exhibit higher productivity, spillovers are important for small domestic firms and stem mostly from small joint ventures the foreign partner owns a minor part of equity. Policy recommendations follow."
