Abstract
This study investigates the potential horizontal and vertical spillovers from FDI towards firms’ efficiency level on Indonesian manufacturing industries, using firm-level panel data. The result suggests that positive evidence of horizontal spillovers arise instantaneously, but the impacts of vertical spillovers appear a year later. These indicate that foreign competitors cause local firms more efficient in the same industry. Furthermore, after one period of time MNCs running their business in Indonesia, they bring positive impacts on downstream markets but deteriorate manufacturing industries in the upstream markets. Therefore, the Indonesian government must ensure that overall benefits from promoting FDI must overweight their negative impacts.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 299-310 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Economic Papers |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- Indonesian manufacturing industry
- backward spillovers
- forward spillovers
- horizontal spillovers
- technical efficiency
