Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

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Örebro University, School of Business

No 2004:6: Are foreign owned firms more productive? Evidence from Swedish firm data

Patrik Karpaty ()
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Patrik Karpaty: Department of Business, Economics, Statistics and Informatics, Postal: Örebro University, Department of Business, Economics, Statistics and Informatics, SE - 701 82 ÖREBRO, Sweden

Abstract: This paper analyzes the difference between foreign and domestic ownership of firms with respect to productivity.

The analysis is performed using a panel of firm data from Statis- tics Sweden, covering the entire manufacturing sector in the 1990:s. First we show that, other things equal, foreign-owned firms have higher labor productivity as well as total factor productivity than domestic firms. We also find that Swedish multinational firms are as productive as foreign-owned firms. Then we show that the rate of growth in productivity is higher in foreign-owned firms. We find no evidence for reverse causality.

Keywords: Foreign ownership; productivity

JEL-codes: F23

32 pages, October 13, 2004

Price: 120

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