This paper seeks to establish the role of absorptive capacity in technology transfer from acquisition FDI in U …

productivity spillovers from FDI. We use establishment level data for the period 1980–1992 for the UK. Given that there is … engineering. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity … for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI interacted with the efficiency gap. We also analyse in …