Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to …

Is public sector infrastructure a key determinant of productivity? Traditional, project-based analyses of benefits and …-based analyses of the links between private productivity and public infrastructure that imply large productivity effects from public … spending. The disparity in estimated returns is often attributed to geographic spillovers in productivity benefits that are not …

endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …

. Second, density of physical capital in a city outside a plant has no effect on a plant's productivity. Third, most of the … productivity differences between cities with high and low levels of human capital match remarkably well differences in labor costs … equilibrium forces and spillovers, the productivity gains generated by human capital spillover are offset by increased labor costs …

host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among …) logistics and; (iv) knowledge about exporting. Knowledge transfer is more likely among labor or vertically linked firms but also …

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 …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …