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Productivity spillovers through backward linkages: The role of the origin of investors and absorptive capacity of domestic firms

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  • Ousmanou Njikam
  • Roland Rostant Njiteu Leudjou

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We argue that multinationals from different home countries have different technologies and input sourcing behavior. These differences impinge on potential productivity spillovers through backward linkages of multinationals and such effects also differ across host local firms depending on their absorptive capacity. Using a panel of Cameroonian manufacturing firms over the period 1993 to 2005, we find supportive evidence of these arguments. There is a negative relationship between the presence of American and European affiliates in downstream sectors and the productivity of Cameroonian firms in the supplying industries and a positive correlation in the case of Asian affiliates. The absorptive capacity of Cameroonian firms mainly explains these divergent results.

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  • Ousmanou Njikam & Roland Rostant Njiteu Leudjou, 2019. "Productivity spillovers through backward linkages: The role of the origin of investors and absorptive capacity of domestic firms," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(2), pages 677-701, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:677-701
    DOI: 10.1111/rode.12579
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