This study examines the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on green technology progress rate (as measured by the green total factor productivity). The analysis utilizes two measures of FDI, labor-based FDI and capital-based FDI, and separately investigates four sets of industry classifications-high/low discharge regulation and high/low emission standard regulation. The results...

FDI comes from different sources, with different levels of technology, different modes of transferring it and into different industries. The spillover effects of FDI may therefore differ. The paper attempts to study empirically the spillover effects of Japanese and U.S. FDI on the total factor productivity growth of the Indian firms, both at the firm and the industry level. The results show tha...

One giant manufacturer (M1) upgrades a common supplier’s production technology through investments, while the supplier (it), holding spillover information privately, may spill upgraded over to rival (M2). This study examines whether should share of with M1. We first find hurts not only M1 but also and M2, when cost is high investment low at level real degree, no matter shares or not. As such, i...

The nature of IS use and its impacts in everyday life settings are not yet well understood. Drawing on quality of life theory and evidence from the IS acceptance and IS impacts research, this study conceptualizes the relationship between IS use and quality of life as a process that involves vertical and horizontal spillover effects. We empirically investigate this relationship in the context of...

Technology spillovers o¤er great opportunities for economic growth to developing countries that do little, if any, R&D activity. This paper explores the extent to which these countries bene…t from foreign technology, the di¤usion mechanisms involved, the factors that shape their absorption capabilities, and the sources of heterogeneity in the spillover gains. Results based on a non-stationary p...

The pervasive role of information and communications technology (ICT) in the new economy is well documented. There is now considerable agreement among scholars regarding the ICT contribution to national productivity growth. On the other hand, the production spillover and network externality associated with ICT capital draws its contribution beyond the neoclassical baseline. Many researchers hav...

The usual perspective on technology spillovers from FDI sees the MNC subsidiary as a passive actor. It presumes that the technological superiority that spreads from subsidiaries to other firms in the host economy is initially created outside it by MNC parent companies, and is delivered to subsidiaries via international technology transfer. The role of subsidiaries is little more than to act as ...

The traditional operational optimization models of systematic technology adoption commonly assume the existence of a global social planner and ignore the existence of heterogeneous decision makers who interact with each other. This paper develops a stylized (or conceptual) optimization model of systematic technology adoption with heterogeneous agents (i.e., decision makers) and uncertain techno...

This working paper series is intended to facilitate discussion and encourage the exchange of ideas. Inclusion here does not preclude publication elsewhere. It is the original work of the author(s) and subject to copyright regulations. ABSTRACT We believe that conflicting decision signals resulting from examining Shewhart Mean and Variability Control Charts produce undesirable consequences. Ther...

Public safety networks are crucial for ensuring effective communications among first responders in emergency situations. This paper provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing the key tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized provisions of public safety networks. We extend the classic fiscal federalism model to capture a critical unique property of public safety networks – interopera...