productivity for six Asian miracle economies over the period from 1955 to 2006. The productivity effects of international knowledge …

Productivity (TFP) growth rates. In particular, we investigate whether a country's initial distance from technology frontier …

new multiplicatively complete index of total factor productivity provide fresh insights on the cross-border FDI generated …

foreign firms, the impact of spillover effect of inward FDI is contingent upon the productivity gap between the domestic firms … productivity gap between domestic low-productivity firms and foreign firms and works conversely for high-productivity firms. This … result suggests that once the productivity gap widens, the entry of foreign firms will increase the efficiency of high-productivity …

the crisis. Second, the total factor productivity growth effect of external finance has been considerably weak both before …

, we suggest that the convergence based on the productivity, can be assisted by a reinforcement of supply-side measures …

productivity-enhancing effects of MNEs. The study finds that the technology transfer of U.S. MNEs contributes to the productivity …

Empirical studies analysing productivity effects of inward FDI in Latin America (LA) are inconclusive. We argue that … FDI to generate productivity effects differs across sectors. For these reasons and because sectoral FDI intensities vary … significantly among LA countries and change over time, we investigate the productivity effects of FDI in eight different sectors …