This study decomposes the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into a technology and a scale effect and … changes in technical efficiency and not in scale and that the preacquisition productivity of the target plays a role in …

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by … rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …

the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the … informal finance, as well as between indigenous and foreign finance. -- China ; finance ; firm size ; growth …

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and … on subsequent firm level productivity. These productivity effects are shown to be larger than those accruing to firms who … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather …

's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …