We assess the role of capital goods imports and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) as transmission channels … source countries in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). We find that the importance of these transmission mechanisms …

their engagement in already existing Indian firms. Most notably, the productivity of the German parents matters only for …

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct … externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers generated by domestic firms. The productivity effects of these … explicitly as determinants of total factor productivity, and tests several empirical specifications of this model, using data for …

importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … strongly depends on firm productivity immediately after the political and economic regime change, but less so with diminishing …. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm-level productivity ; distance ; timing of FDI …