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1、WorldDevelopmentVol.36,No.12,pp.2838–2854,2008Ó2008ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved0305-750X/$-seefrontmatterwww.elsevier.com/locate/worlddevdoi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.02.006Intra-andInter-industryExternalitiesfromForeignDirectInvestmentintheMexicanManufacturingS
2、ector:NewEvidencefromMexicanRegions*JACOBA.JORDAANFreeUniversityofAmsterdam,Amsterdam,TheNetherlandsSummary.—ThispaperpresentsnewempiricalevidenceonexternalitiesfromForeignDirectInvestment(FDI)inseveralMexicanregionsintheearly1990s.Themainfindingsarethreefold.Fi
3、rst,thepresenceofFDIcreatesnegativeexternalitieswithinindustriesandpositiveexternalitiesbetweenindustriesthroughbackwardlinkages.Second,FDI-externalitiesarestimulatedbylargetechnologicaldifferencesbetweenFDIandMexicanfirmsandbygeographicconcentrationofindustries.
4、Third,weidentifyasubstantiallevelofregionalheterogeneityoftheexternalityimpactofFDI,inlinewiththenotionthatFDImayhavecontributedtoprocessesofchangingregionalprosperityundertradeliberalization.Thefindingsalsoimplythatmaquiladorafirmsintheborderstatesaregeneratingp
5、ositiveexternalities.Ó2008ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.Keywords—FDI,maquiladora,externalities,technologygap,geographicconcentration,Mexico,LatinAmerica1.INTRODUCTIONfromforeign-ownedfirms.ThesecondfactoristheextenttowhichFDIanddomesticfirmsRecentresearchontheimp
6、actfromForeignarelocatedingeographicproximity.InlineDirectInvestment(FDI)isexploringavenueswithevidencethatproximitybetweeneconomictoimprovethestatisticalidentificationofFDIagentsmayfosterthecreationandthetrans-spillovers.Onedevelopmentistobroadenthemissionofkno
7、wledgespillovers(Audretsch&scopeoftheestimations,bycontrollingforFeldman,2004),thehypothesisthatFDIspill-thefullindustrydimensionoftheseexternali-oversarefacilitatedbysuchproximitybetweenties.TherecognitionoftheimportanceofthisFDIanddomesticfirmsiseasilyputforwa
8、rd.dimensiontranslatesintodistinguishingbe-Thepurposeofthispaperistobuildandex-tweenintra-andinter-industryFDIexternali-tendontheserecentdevelopmentsinempiricalties(e.g.,Bla