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- Title
Cross‐border technology investments in recession.
- Authors
Sun, Juliana Yu; Zheng, Huanhuan
- Abstract
Utilizing industry‐level foreign direct investment (FDI) from 72 source markets to 122 destination markets between 2003 to 2018, we evaluate how cross‐border technology investments respond to economic recessions. We find that FDI embedded with intensive research and development (R&D) drops when the destination market is in a recession and the source market is in a normal state and recovers to the pre‐recession levels when both destination and source markets are in recession. However, there is little evidence that recessions affect cross‐border investments in other aspects of technology measured by the penetration of robots, intellectual property products and information and communications technology (ICT). The response of R&D‐intensive FDI to recessions is particularly pronounced in deep and long recessions, during the propagation stage of recessions and in destination markets with relatively weak institutional protection of intellectual property and rule of law, loose FDI regulation and high financial development. Our findings are limited to advanced markets: there is no evidence that R&D‐intensive FDI from or to emerging markets responds to either destination or source market recessions.
- Subjects
INTELLECTUAL property; PLACE marketing; RECESSIONS; FOREIGN investments; EMERGING markets; CROSS border transactions
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2024, Vol 57, Issue 1, p297
- ISSN
0008-4085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/caje.12686