Enhancing national innovative capacity: The impact of high-tech international trade and inward foreign direct investment

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Wu ◽  
Zhenzhong Ma ◽  
Shuaihe Zhuo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Inward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovative Capacity

scholarly journals Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, International Trade, and Inequality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh Nam Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The Impact

<p>This thesis consists of three empirical essays on the impact on inequality of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), international trade, and technological progress that comes with them. The first essay examines whether FDI contributes towards income convergence of the host country, drawing evidence from provincial data in Vietnam. Using the spatial econometrics approach and an exogenous set of distance-based weights to characterize spatial dependences, we identify the substantial role of both spatial interactions and FDI spillovers in bringing provinces closer together in terms of income level. We show that high-tech FDI and industry FDI agglomerations contribute significantly more towards the convergence process than low-tech FDI and agglomerations formed by FDI firms coming from the same country. A similar pattern also emerges when we consider consumption convergence. The second essay studies the impact of local labour demand shocks from FDI firms on wage distribution, using microdata from the Vietnam Household Labour Force Survey. We use Bartik shift-share instrument based on the interaction between predetermined local employment structure and time-varying nationwide employment to deal with the endogeneity between local wage level and multinational firms’ locational decisions. Overall, we find that surges in foreign hiring increase average local wage, but the benefits are considerably higher for workers who work in lower-skilled occupations or have lower educational attainments. Given the prevailing skill and education wage premium, this heterogeneous effect provides evidence that the presence of FDI firms can reduce wage inequality. The third essay analyzes the association between income inequality, dependence on the manufacturing sector, and the availability of vocational education as an alternative track to general tertiary education. We find that in countries where tertiary and vocational are the two main available pathways for students to pursue, as economic recovery, trade, and automation increases the value-added of the manufacturing sector but decreases the number of manufacturing jobs, improving access to vocational education is associated with a larger decline in inequality compared to tertiary education. Therefore, in the long run, limited public resources should be directed towards vocational education in order to smooth out adjustment to trade and skilled-biased technological change. A case study comparing the United States and Germany in terms of their recovery paths from the Global Financial Crisis provide further evidence for our claims.</p>

scholarly journals Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, International Trade, and Inequality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh Nam Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The Impact

<p>This thesis consists of three empirical essays on the impact on inequality of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), international trade, and technological progress that comes with them. The first essay examines whether FDI contributes towards income convergence of the host country, drawing evidence from provincial data in Vietnam. Using the spatial econometrics approach and an exogenous set of distance-based weights to characterize spatial dependences, we identify the substantial role of both spatial interactions and FDI spillovers in bringing provinces closer together in terms of income level. We show that high-tech FDI and industry FDI agglomerations contribute significantly more towards the convergence process than low-tech FDI and agglomerations formed by FDI firms coming from the same country. A similar pattern also emerges when we consider consumption convergence. The second essay studies the impact of local labour demand shocks from FDI firms on wage distribution, using microdata from the Vietnam Household Labour Force Survey. We use Bartik shift-share instrument based on the interaction between predetermined local employment structure and time-varying nationwide employment to deal with the endogeneity between local wage level and multinational firms’ locational decisions. Overall, we find that surges in foreign hiring increase average local wage, but the benefits are considerably higher for workers who work in lower-skilled occupations or have lower educational attainments. Given the prevailing skill and education wage premium, this heterogeneous effect provides evidence that the presence of FDI firms can reduce wage inequality. The third essay analyzes the association between income inequality, dependence on the manufacturing sector, and the availability of vocational education as an alternative track to general tertiary education. We find that in countries where tertiary and vocational are the two main available pathways for students to pursue, as economic recovery, trade, and automation increases the value-added of the manufacturing sector but decreases the number of manufacturing jobs, improving access to vocational education is associated with a larger decline in inequality compared to tertiary education. Therefore, in the long run, limited public resources should be directed towards vocational education in order to smooth out adjustment to trade and skilled-biased technological change. A case study comparing the United States and Germany in terms of their recovery paths from the Global Financial Crisis provide further evidence for our claims.</p>

scholarly journals International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment as Innovation Factors of the U.S. Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
Tomasz M. Napiórkowski
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Main Portion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Total Impact ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The aim of this research is to asses the hypothesis that foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade have had a positive impact on innovation in one of the most significant economies in the world, the United States (U.S.). To do so, the author used annual data from 1995 to 2010 to build a set of econometric models. In each model, 11 in total) the number of patent applications by U.S. residents is regressed on inward FDI stock, exports and imports of the economy as a collective, and in each of the 10 SITC groups separately. Although the topic of FDI is widely covered in the literature, there are still disagreements when it comes to the impact of foreign direct investment on the host economy [McGrattan, 2011]. To partially address this gap, this research approaches the host economy not only as an aggregate, but also as a sum of its components (i.e., SITC groups), which to the knowledge of this author has not yet been done on the innovation-FDI-trade plane, especially for the U.S. Unfortunately, the study suffers from the lack of available data. For example, the number of patents and other used variables is reported in the aggregate and not for each SITC groups (e.g., trade). As a result, our conclusions regarding exports and imports in a specific SITC category (and the total) impact innovation in the U.S. is reported in the aggregate. General notions found in the literature are first shown and discussed. Second, the dynamics of innovation, trade and inward FDI stock in the U.S. are presented. Third, the main portion of the work, i.e. the econometric study, takes place, leading to several policy applications and conclusions.

scholarly journals Inward Foreign Direct Investment and National Innovative Capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meda Andrijauskiene ◽  
Daiva Dumčiuvienė
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Inward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Innovative Capacity

A remarkable increase in the attention devoted to national innovative capacity (NIC) has been noticed over the last decades. There is a strong debate whether a country’s national innovative capacity is entirely determined by local effects or it is also influenced by global network position and international economic activities. Furthermore, despite its’ importance, there is a lack of studies which take the variables of non-technological innovation into account. This paper aims to fill the empirical research gap by focusing on inward foreign direct investment as an input of NIC and engaging non–technological innovation as an output in NIC models. An investigation of 28 European Union (EU) Member States in the period of 2013-2016 shows that EU has a great intellectual capacity of human capital which drives both technological and non-technological innovation. The regression analysis revealed that the international transmission of knowledge through inward FDI and import boost the employment in knowledge-intensive sectors and has a positive effect on trademark and design applications. The findings thus help to better understand the role of international economic activities in enhancing national innovative capacity and facilitate EU efforts to catch up with the strongest innovators in the World.

Economic Crisis and Its Effects on International Trade

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Miloš Parežanin ◽  
Dragana Kragulj ◽  
Sandra Jednak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The aim of this chapter is to analyse the effects of the economic crisis on the trade among the Southeastern European (SEE) countries. The countries were divided into two groups: the EU countries and non-EU countries. Macroeconomic performances and international trade indicators of the 11 observed countries were analysed for the period 2007-2019, and the effects of the economic crisis were present in all the observed countries, particularly the effects on the export performances. The crisis also affected the entire import of the non-EU countries. The EU countries recovered from the crisis faster than the non-EU countries. However, the non-EU countries achieved a more significant inflow of foreign direct investment in the post-crisis period, which significantly improved the position of the balance of payments in these countries. The observed countries had managed to stabilise their trade flows all until the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. The impact of the current crisis on these countries remains to be estimated in the future.

scholarly journals The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Trade (Export and Import) in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Mehman Karimov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Lag Selection ◽  
Causality Tests ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

It is said that after globalization processes foreign direct investment start to influence trade moreover it is very complicated to deduce the relationship between trade and FDI according to theoretical analysis. Therefore, empirical studies showed that until the 1980s international trade generated direct investment but after 1980s FDI started to heavily influencing international trade. Also, results showed that the relationship can differ from one country to another. Thus, this paper is aimed to analyze the impact of Foreign Direct Investment inflow on the macroeconomic variable as a Trade (Export, Import) in Turkey. The paper covers the time period from 1974 to 2017. The time series datasets, those are obtained from World Bank and IMF database are utilized in employed statistical models as ADF Unit Root, VAR lag selection, Johansen co-integration, and the Granger Causality tests, to fulfill empirical part of the paper. Based on results, it was confirmed that there was the presence of the co-integration between analyzed series. Additionally, results of Granger causality test showed that there is unidirectional causality from Export and Import to FDI.

scholarly journals International trade and foreign direct investment as growth stimulators in transition economies: does the impact of institutional factors matter?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonis Tsitouras ◽  
Athanasios Koulakiotis ◽  
Georgios Makris ◽  
Harry Papapanagos
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
The Impact

The present paper develops a general production function framework, augmented with two institutional variables namely bureaucracy and corruption on 28 transition economies over the period 2000-2015. The authors use various econometric specifications and apply both the Fixed Effects, as well as the advanced system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) panel data techniques. Empirical findings suggest that the impact of openness in terms of foreign direct investment and international trade is advantageous to all the economies of the panel. Furthermore, the findings indicate that classical growth determinants, such as labor and physical capital, have the expected positive contribution, while macroeconomic instability has a negative effect on real economic activity. Regarding the impact of the two institutional variables, corruption, and bureaucracy, the authors retrieve more influential results, as their impact appears to be diametrically opposite between the former Soviet Union states and the rest of European transition economics.

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