Journal article
Climbing the rungs of the quality ladder: FDI and domestic exporters in Romania
- Abstract:
- This paper argues that inflows of foreign direct investment can facilitate export upgrading in host countries. Using customs data merged with firm-level information for 2005-2011, it shows a positive relationship between the quality of products exported by Romanian firms and the presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. Export quality is also positively related to MNE presence in the downstream (input-sourcing) industries and the same industry, but these relationships are less robust. These conclusions hold both when the product quality is proxied with unit values and when it is estimated following the approach of Khandelwal et al. (2013).
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/ej/ueaa003
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Economic Journal More from this journal
- Volume:
- 130
- Issue:
- 628
- Pages:
- 937–955
- Publication date:
- 2020-01-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-0297
- ISSN:
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0013-0133
- Pubs id:
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pubs:1070549
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uuid:53eb4008-cff8-433d-acec-f8dedc444bc8
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pubs:1070549
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1070549
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2019-11-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Royal Economic Society.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 Royal Economic Society. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa003
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