International R&D Transfer and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Panel Study Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

被引：45

作者：

Wang, Miao ^{[1
]}

Wong, M. C. Sunny ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Marquette Univ, Milwaukee, WI 53233 USA

[2] Univ San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2012年 / 40卷 / 10期

关键词：

R&D; FDI; trade; technical efficiency; FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT; TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE; TRADE; PRODUCTIVITY; CONVERGENCE; CAPACITY; OPENNESS; AFRICA;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.001

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

We study the effect of foreign research and development (R&D) transferred through imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic technical efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis. Unbalanced panel results from a 77-country sample over 1986-2007 show that FDI- and imports-transferred foreign R&D have a significant impact on domestic country's technical efficiency. Furthermore, we observe a complementarity between FDI-transferred R&D and domestic human capital. In other words, the domestic country needs to obtain a threshold level of human capital to benefit from FDI-transferred R&D. Other macro conditions such as infrastructure, political stability, and urbanization also help to improve the technical efficiency of a country. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：1982 / 1998

页数：17

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