-industrializing developing countries (People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Philippines), drawing on recent developments in applied … the People's Republic of China as well as accumulated experience in Thailand. Furthermore, a technology index composed of …

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

: their productivity level and its export status. In line with theories and empirical evidence on the absorptive capacity of …

), but suggests a strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …