Do domestic firms learn to export from multinationals?

30 anos de investigação sobre externalidades do IDE para as empresas nacionais: que conclusões?

“…Um terceiro canal mediante o qual a presença das EM pode beneficiar as empresas locais é através de exportações (Aitken et al, 1997;Greenaway et al, 2004). Paralelamente à análise da influência das EM na produtividade destas empresas -foco da presente análise -, tem sido desenvolvida uma outra vertente -mais reduzida -que visa investigar o impacto das EM sobre a capacidade exportadora das empresas locais.…”

“…Os ganhos assim obtidos poderão repercutir favoravelmente na eficiência produtiva das empresas nacionais. Vários estudos -Bernard e Jensen (1999), Sgard (2001), Girma (2003), Greenaway et al (2004) -evidenciam o fato de as empresas exportadoras terem níveis superiores de produtividade. 4 Este resultado pode ser entendido à luz de alguns dos fatores que funcionam no âmbito interno.…”

Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions

“…An emerging body of research focuses on the effect of spillovers on the export decision of domestic firms, or export spillovers (Aitken et al 1997;Greenaway et al 2004;Kneller and Pisu 2007). Domestic firms may be more inclined to engage in export activities if exposed to other economic actors' international activities.…”

Demonstration or congestion? Export spillovers in Sweden

“…5 While the above discussion suggests that export spillovers are of economic relevance and that Sweden is an interesting country to search for them, the main contributions that we make come from the empirical modelling of spillovers. Building on the work of Greenaway et al (2004) we are able to separate the sales of foreign firms into those aimed at the domestic market and exports. This difference should allow us to determine whether any spillover effects we observe are general, in that they do not depend on the destination of final sales, or specific to export markets.…”

“…This difference should allow us to determine whether any spillover effects we observe are general, in that they do not depend on the destination of final sales, or specific to export markets. As in the paper by Greenaway et al (2004) we are also careful to allow for separate effects of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the extensive (number of firms who export) and the intensive margins (the intensity with which those firms export) of exporting, accounting for the interdependence of these decisions through a Heckman selection model.…”