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Spillovers (or externalities) are impacts on third parties not directly involved in an economic transaction, that is, when a transaction between A and B affects C (Pigou, 1920). In such cases, the parties to the transaction (firms, consumers or factor owners) either do not bear all of the costs or do not reap all of the benefits from the transaction. Positive (social benefits exceed private benefits) or negative (social costs exceed private costs) spillovers are created. The existence of spillovers, however, is not always a matter for concern. Externalities can be divided into two groups, pecuniary and non-pecuniary; only non-pecuniary spillovers cause misallocation of resources (Scitovsky, 1954).
Although vertical linkages generate primarily pecuniary spillovers, they often also create technological spillovers as a byproduct. For example, buyer-supplier linkages involving an MNE can facilitate learning-by-doing by local firms, raising their productivity. MNE training of host country employees provides a more highly skilled and productive labor pool and a potential source of new start-up firms, creating external benefits for upstream and downstream firms. All of these activities generate informal, unintended, non-market transfers. Because vertical linkages can create both pecuniary and technological spillovers, they are often difficult to disentangle. From the perspective of FDI, the key to technological spillovers is that there are residual impacts from FDI that accrue to local firms and organizations for which the foreign entrants are uncompensated. These residual impacts are expected to raise the overall level of productivity at the industry and possibly the national level, and thus increase national welfare in the host country (MacDougall, 1960).
There is at least one important difference between pecuniary and technological spillovers (Holcombe & Sobel, 2001). Pecuniary spillovers reflect the workings of the market system. As there are both winners and losers from changes in market prices, the gains and losses cancel one another, and public policy intervention is not required to correct the externality. On the other hand, technological spillovers reflect differences between social and private impacts that are not reflected in market prices and can therefore generate inefficiencies (too much or too little being produced). As a result, public policy intervention may be needed for market prices to reflect social costs and benefits.
There is a second difference between the two types of spillovers that comes into play with MNEs and FDI. The argument that pecuniary spillovers can be ignored because the winners and losers cancel one another assumes winners and losers have the same weight in national welfare calculations. However, where one group consists of foreign owners, the welfare impact of pecuniary spillovers on income earned by residents (measured by Gross National Product (GNP)) differs from the impact on income earned within the borders of a country (measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP)). In this case, the host government might care about the welfare impacts of pecuniary spillovers as they can affect GNP, even if GDP is unchanged (MacDougall, 1960). Thus, it is rational for host country governments to encourage backward and forward linkages, even if the impacts are wholly pecuniary, because such linkages can add to national welfare as measured by GNP.
As vertical linkages can generate both pecuniary and technological spillovers, it is often difficult to disentangle linkages from spillovers, and scholars may confuse or equate the two. Moreover, because of the difficulty of sorting out pecuniary from technological spillovers, researchers have tended to separate spillovers into categories that are more easily captured empirically.
Interindustry spillovers from FDI are pecuniary and technological spillovers generated from vertical linkages between firms in different industries. In practice, scholars estimating interindustry spillovers tend to focus on the technological spillovers generated by buyer-supplier linkages, and pecuniary spillovers are either ignored or included in the productivity estimates.
Lastly, agglomeration spillovers refer to the pecuniary and technological spillovers that arise from clusters and networks; these impacts can be intraindustry or interindustry (Dunning & Lundan, 2008). Again, the empirical focus has been on technological spillovers. A typical example of agglomeration spillovers is knowledge spillovers generated by geographically clustered high-tech firms in Silicon Valley (Almeida & Kogut, 1999).
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