structure and improving productivity. The impact is not always positive, as domestic firms are often crowded-out. However, those … desirable productivity spillovers …

. We consider the heterogeneity of both MNEs and domestic firms (global engagement, firm and sector dimension, productivity …

foreign investment as a share of GDP in the recent global history, and this has contributed to productivity convergence. We …

capital flows (foreign ownership) and the related productivity spillovers, using firm-level data from the Business Environment … direct and intra-industry productivity effects of foreign ownership and examine how these differ across regional blocks (CEE … suggest that FDI of EU origin plays a distinctive role in the countries concerned helping raise domestic productivity …

via an increase in their productivity. The growing competitive pressure in the upstream sector, induced by global retail … chains, drives least productive firms out of the market and the average productivity of the sector increases. In addition …, retail sector FDI generates productivity gains at the firm level: local suppliers of multinational retailers benefit from the …