FDI in Côte d'Ivoire: Are local firms better off?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Olurotimi, Osaretin; Foltz, Jeremy; Traore, Nouhoum
• 署名单位: University of Arizona; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; The World Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103441
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: foreign direct investment; spillovers; domestic firms; PRODUCTIVITY; exports; AFRICA

摘要

Developing countries often articulate the desire to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) in their development and industrial policy to generate productivity spillovers. Does this policy achieve its aims? This work draws on unique firm panel data in C & ocirc;te d'Ivoire and the latest techniques of estimating productivity to provide evidence about whether FDI benefits domestic firms' productivity and export performance across all sectors. On average, we find no significant effects of FDI on productivity, but that masks significant heterogeneity. We see a significant impact of FDI on the productivity of small firms, firms older than five years, firms located outside Abidjan, and firms with above-median initial productivity. Horizontal FDI increases domestic firms' intensive and extensive export margins, although we do not see the effects of downstream or upstream FDI on exports, on average. Our results imply that domestic firms gain export capabilities by observing foreign firms in the same industry.