advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …