Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296802 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 1410
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects from foreign to domestic firms in Indonesia and assesses the significance of geographical factors on FDI spillover. It uses firm-level data from the Indonesian Bureau of Public Statistics (BPS) covering the period from 2000 to 2009 and focuses on 16 manufacturing sectors. We find an absence of FDI spillover at the country level; however, we observe significant province-level forward FDI spillovers. These findings appear to indicate that intermediate goods supplied by foreign firms raise the productivity of domestic firms via learning, variety, and a quality effect. Our analysis reflects the importance of geographical proximity in realizing forward FDI spillovers. These findings show the importance of developing and improving transportation and telecommunication infrastructure to facilitate FDI spillovers by virtually reducing geographical distance between foreign and domestic firms.
Subjects: 
foreign direct investment
technology transfer
firm productivity
JEL: 
D22
F21
O3
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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