model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is … robust investment which translates directly into productivity gains …

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment … productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

the firm's investment decision to identify the embodied and disembodied components of productivity growth. With a Cobb …This paper presents a new approach to assess the role of price mismeasurement in the productivity slowdown. I invert … that in the Post-War period, disembodied productivity grew faster in the hard-to-measure than in the non-manufacturing easy …

outbound investment. Our results differ from existing models. In contrast to Feldstein and Hartman (1979), in our model, taxing … Tulkens (1996), the optimal policy for domestic and outbound investment is linked through the strategic choices of the …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … that both the wage and productivity profiles are rising but concave to the origin (consistent with profiles quadratic in … age), but the estimated relative wage profile is steeper than the relative productivity profile, consistent with models of …

We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel … acquisitions after controlling for country and sector trends. The productivity of foreign acquired affiliates increases modestly …

employment and investment decisions of multinationals producing intermediate inputs in developing countries. This is the case … even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected …

foreign and domestic locations. Used abroad, it generates profits for foreign subsidiaries with no foreign direct investment …

investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of … likely to crowd in) domestic investment for LDCs than DCs …