Multinationals, linkages, and economic development

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: RodriguezClare, A
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 852-873
• 关键词: ENTERPRISES; TRADE; asia

摘要

This paper explores how multinationals affect underdeveloped regions through the generation of linkages. it is shown that the linkage effect of multinationals on the host country is more likely to be favorable when the good that multinationals produce uses intermediate goads intensively, when there are large costs of communication between the headquarters and the production plant, and when the home and host countries are not too different in terms of the variety of inter mediate goods produced If these conditions are reversed, then multinationals could evert hurt the developing economy, formalizing the idea that multinationals may create enclave economies within developing countries.