productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency … their effects in the full sample, only the bribe tax appears to have a negative effect on firm-level productivity, while the … taxes, implying that bribing does not emerge as a second-best option to achieve higher productivity by helping circumvent …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

Abstract: This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using … the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can … identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a …