Do Foreign Firms Bring Greater Total Factor Productivity to Japan?

Do Foreign Firms Bring Greater Total Factor Productivity to Japan?

Foreign Knowledge, What does it bring to Domestic Firms

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a vital mechanism in modern economic development. In many transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe FDI is particularly seen as the main source of catching-up with more developed countries of European Union. This paper contributes to the methodology of evaluating the impact of FDI on the host country by taking into account the impact of FDI both on te...

Hi-stat Overcoming Economic Stagnation in Japan: the Importance of Total Factor Productivity and the Potential Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment Overcoming Economic Stagnation in Japan: the Importance of Total Factor Productivity and the Potential Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment

The 1990s have been a decade of minimal growth for the Japanese economy. Examining this record from a growth accounting perspective, this paper argues that a major factor underlying Japan’s disappointing growth performance in recent years has been a marked slow-down in total factor productivity (TFP) growth. It is suggested that, given present population trends and low returns on capital, any s...

Foreign Knowledge Spillovers and Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Four ASEAN Countries

This study examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and total factor productivity having controlled for other channels of external openness: exports and imports in four ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. We employ the panel data analysis PDA (fixed effect and dynamic panel models) as well as the panel cointegration and Granger causali...

Total-factor energy productivity growth of regions in Japan

This article computes the energy productivity changes of regions in Japan using total-factor frameworks based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Since the traditional DEA-Malmquist index cannot analyze changes in single-factor productivity changes under the total-factor framework, we apply a new index proposed by Hu and Chang [2009. Total-factor energy productivity growth of regions in China. ...