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The role of foreign direct investment in the host-country firm selection process: firm-level evidence from Slovenian manufacturing

Katja Zajc Kejžar
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This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period. It adopts the firm dynamics framework that allows testing of selection effects directly by assessing the impact of foreign firms' activity on the probability of exiting of local firms (crowding out). The results show that intra-industry productivity spillover effects offset only a minor part of the competition pressure which results from foreign firm entry, hence incumbent firms experience a drop in their survival probability upon a foreign firm's entry within a particular industry. This result is driven by foreign firm entry of the greenfield type, as entry through the acquisition of existing firms has no significant effect. The strength of the crowding-out effect decreases with the incumbent firm's export propensity. There is no significant evidence that inward FDI would stimulate the selection process through backward linkages in the upstream supplying industries, whereas foreign firms' activity reduces the exit probability of downstream local customers (through forward linkages).
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hal-00642401 , version 1 (18-11-2011)

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Katja Zajc Kejžar. The role of foreign direct investment in the host-country firm selection process: firm-level evidence from Slovenian manufacturing. Review of World Economics, 2010, 147 (1), pp.169-193. ⟨10.1007/s10290-010-0077-3⟩. ⟨hal-00642401⟩

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