Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Rahmi Cetin
Author-Name: Robert Ackrill 
Title: Foreign investment and the export behaviour of foreign and local firms: an analysis of Turkish manufacturing 
Abstract: This paper compares the export performance of a sample of 119 foreign and local
firms in Turkey, in 1994 and 1995, using descriptive statistical techniques. It also
examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational enterprises
(MNEs) in manufacturing exports and its contribution to the changing
comparative advantage of Turkish manufacturing sectors. The findings suggest
that even after the implementation of liberal economic policies in 1980 foreign
and local firms, exporting less than 25% of their output, are principally local
market-oriented. The results show, however, that FDI plays an important role in
shifting the comparative advantage of manufacturing exports from traditional to
technology-intensive sectors. In the long term, this is expected to result in a
greater export-orientation for Turkish manufacturing industry.
File-URL: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/310181/Foreign-investment-and-the-export-behaviour.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2006
Creation-Date:  2006-12
Classification-JEL: F14, F21, O24
Keywords: Export Propensity, Foreign Firms, Revealed Comparative Advantage.
Handle: RePEc:nbs:wpaper:2006/2