model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … out: (1) growth in parent and affiliate capital are the most important sources of growth, with FDI contributing more to … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among … domestic plants in districts that attracted a large greenfield foreign plant and districts where greenfield FDI was licensed … but not yet operational. Treated and untreated districts have similar trends in TFP prior to the opening of the large …

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

productivity conditions). Empirical literature on the determinants of FDI flows which uses the Tobit procedure aims at a correction …The paper develops a model with lumpy setup costs of new investment, which govern the flows of FDI. Foreign investment … decisions are two-fold: whether to export FDI and, if so, how much. The first decision is governed by total profitability …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

We quantify the effect of foreign investment on productivity of acquired firms using a new firm-level database that … score matching; and to control for selection on unobserved fundamentals, we include country- sector trends. The productivity …

This paper extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … to have a significant positive effect on productivity. Moreover, this effect appears to be quite large. The estimated …