' hypothesis that foreign innovation activities tap into foreign R and D and improve home productivity through knowledge spillovers …

knowledge” from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of …

productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it … (FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity …

pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … increased import competition in medium-growth (but not in low- or high-growth) manufacturing sectors enhances overall … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral …

productivity and that they impact the degree of R&D spillovers …

suggested that these differences should be driven by cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper … discusses various measures of productivity and its determinants for the OECD countries from different dimensions: (i) the … measurement perspective; (ii) evidence on the evolution of productivity levels across OECD countries; and (iii) a critical review …

We investigate the long-run relationship between the real exchange rate, traded and nontraded productivity levels, and … find that in 1991 (the last year productivity data are available) there is less overvaluation of the U.S. dollar than that …