Impacto das empresas estrangeiras sobre os ganhos de produtividade na indústria brasileira

Abstract

The objective of this study is to estimate the productivity spillover in the Brazilian industry, from the regional and sectoral location of foreign firms. The literature shows that, in imperfect competition regime, FDI can generate productivity spillovers. These effects can be verified by the ability of domestic firms to absorb technological knowledge generated by foreign companies. These effects might vary by industry and region, depending on the interactions between domestic and foreign companies, by level of technological intensity, size of domestic firms and the degree of competition in local markets. Thus, the work analyze if the Brazilian industry has capacity to absorb the benefits from foreign companies. A panel of microdata with company-specific variables was constructed to estimate econometrically the productivity spillovers from foreign companies to Brazilian domestic industry and companies, by region, technology intensity level and size of companies. Two set of results were generated, by the industry and national industry firms. The main results showed that the national industry and firms, the South and Southeast regions and their medium-low technology firms were able to absorb the productivity Spillovers of foreign firms. By controlling the regressions by size of firms, only the medium domestic firms absorbed the Sspillovers.