international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world …. Since multinational firms are the main coordinating agents in these networks, whether through affiliates or procurement of …

Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial … multinational firms location decisions using -for the first time to our knowledge- firm-level data. To do so, we carry out … multinational firms and assistance by the investment promotion agency (IPA) in Costa Rica over the period 2000-2016. Estimates …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy … that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in …

Intra-firm trade, from parents to affiliates, has been combined with standard models of multinational production (MP … is concentrated among a small set of large multinational firms. Using firm-level data from 35 countries, we document that … only firms belonging to multinational corporations (MNCs) in the upper tail of the firm's size distribution are …

This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI … labour productivity we find: i) positive intra-industry spillover effects for firms located in advanced countries, and ii …

indirect effects of the rise of industrial robots and productivity via international value chains on various industrial … technological advancements measured by total factor productivity (TFP). The results indicate that the overall impact of the …-2014 significantly, while the overall impact on the real value added growth of industries in the world was positive and significant. The …