This paper examines whether and how the entry of foreign multinational firms affects productivity growth of … studies conducting productivity analyses on foreign multinationals and domestic firms for the manufacturing sector, there are … firms in many sectors. However, although the productivity levels of the former tend to be higher than those of the latter …

sector. I employ the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test to compare the overall distribution of productivity by internationalized … status, after estimating the productivity premia of MNEs. The results indicate that MNEs are more productive than non-MNEs in …

larger market sizes are associated with higher productivity levels and lower markups. This finding also holds true for … productivity growth in the service sector also requires markets to be larger and more integrated, and that the markup levels become …