FDI and Technical Efficiency in Manufacturing Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

<p>In this paper, firm-level data from manufacturing sector in five African countries is obtained to estimate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firm’s technical efficiency. Unbalanced panel data over period of 1991-2003 shows that the existence of FDI has a significant impact on domestic firms’ technical efficiency. The results remain robust after controlling for country and year fixed effect. Other determinants of technical efficiency are investigated as well and the results show that firm size and export behavior increases efficiency while firm age lowers efficiency</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in International and Development Economics (MSIDEC)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Zhou, Yue

Contributors dc:contributor

• M.C. Sunny Wong

• Foreign ownership
• technical efficiency
• stochastic frontier model
• Economics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/95

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:thes-1102