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Investissements Directs Etrangers, Diffusion Technologique Et Concentration Spatiale Dans Les Pays En Developpement

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  • Maurice CATIN

    (CRERI, Université de Toulon et du Var)

  • Stéphane GHIO

    (CRERI, Université de Toulon et du Var)

  • Christophe VAN HUFFEL

    (CRERI, Université de Toulon et du Var)

Abstract

The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model, inspired by Krugman and Livas-Elizondo (1996) and extended by Catin, Ghio and Van Huffel (2001), tries to account for the specific role of the (local and/or interregional) spread of knowledge and of the domestic country's absorption capacity of new technologies. The model shows that after a tendency to polarization in the first stages of development, centrifugal forces are largely determined by the intensity of knowledge externalities.

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  • Maurice CATIN & Stéphane GHIO & Christophe VAN HUFFEL, 2002. "Investissements Directs Etrangers, Diffusion Technologique Et Concentration Spatiale Dans Les Pays En Developpement," Region et Developpement, Region et Developpement, LEAD, Universite du Sud - Toulon Var, vol. 16, pages 55-83.
    • Handle: RePEc:tou:journl:v:16:y:2002:p:55-83
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    1. Maurice CATIN & Saïd HANCHANE & Abdelhak KAMAL, 2008. "URBANISATION, PRIMATIE ET eTAPES DE DeVELOPPEMENT : EXISTE-T-IL UNE COURBE EN CLOCHE ?," Region et Developpement, Region et Developpement, LEAD, Universite du Sud - Toulon Var, vol. 27, pages 83-108.
    2. Catin, Maurice & Luo, Xubei & Van Huffel, Christophe, 2005. "Openness, industrialization, and geographic concentration of activities in China," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3706, The World Bank.
    3. GHAZOUANI Assaad & TERAOUI Hedia, 2014. "Technology Transfer and FDI: Some Lessons for Tunisia," Asian Economic and Financial Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 4(1), pages 90-104, January.

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    Keywords

    PAYS EN DEVELOPPEMENT; FIRMES MULTINATIONALES; EXTERNALITES DE CONNAISSANCE; REPARTITION SPATIALE DES ACTIVITES;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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