Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2747 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 3325
Publisher: 
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
Abstract: 
This Paper presents an empirical study of the effect of foreign multinational companies on the development of indigenous firms in the host country. Our starting point is a recent paper by Markusen and Venables (1999) that shows formally that multinationals, through the creation of linkages with indigenous suppliers, can exert positive effects on the development of indigenous firms. Based on the literature on entry in industrial organisation, we estimate empirically a model describing the entry of indigenous firms using data for the Irish manufacturing sector. Our results indicate that there is a positive effect of multinational companies on the entry of indigenous firms for a variety of alternative specifications.
JEL: 
F23
L60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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