TY - BOOK ID - 136306869 TI - Are Inflows of FDI Good for Russian Exporters? PY - 2020 PB - Washington, D.C. : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Russia (Federation) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136306869 AB - This study examines whether foreign direct investment inflows facilitate upgrading of export quality in host countries. The analysis focuses on the Russian Federation and uses customs data merged with firm-level information from Orbis. The results show a positive relationship between the quality of products exported by domestic firms and the presence of foreign affiliates in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. This relationship is present irrespective of export destination or foreign direct investment origin. The results are robust to using different proxies to measure product quality. ER -