We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …

variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe … cyclical employment fluctuations. -- Intensive margin ; extensive margin ; productivity ; business cycles ; variance …

question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect'. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and … evidence is in line with the results from the theoretical model. -- Multi-product firms ; productivity ; optimal product scope …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at … direct investment ; multinational enterprise ; joint venture ; productivity …

's productivity growth depends upon its distance from the world's technological leader. One motivating contemporary example includes …

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies … new knowledge, exporting to less developed markets should not generate as much productivity growth as exporting to … highest productivity premium and that the ability to benefit from exporting in general and exporting to advanced markets in …

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 11% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …