relationship with multinationals and their performance in terms of innovation and productivity. Quite uniquely, we also evaluate … the government or multinationals. We also find that domestic firms’ process innovation activity is only positively …

potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …

This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the … drastically reduced during the economic crisis. Our findings reveal that multinationals are more likely to exit contributing to … domestic enterprises. These results are not fully consistent with idea that multinationals are less affected by an economic …

the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm that patents from firms engaged in science are more frequently …

proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as innovation performance indicators, and exploits original data regarding …