-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen …

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 …

also to the Chinese joint venture partner firm. Third, with technology spillovers typically outweighing negative … externalities are large, perhaps twice the size of wholly-owned FDI spillovers, and it is R&D-intensive firms, including the joint …

spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction … superstars intensive in R&D, IT and/or human capital. In addition to productivity spillovers, we document the transmission of …

In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) on trade-related international R&D spillovers. A …. The finding casts doubt on the claim that patterns of international trade are important in driving R&D spillovers …

Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international spillovers' of … technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers …. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I use this framework to …