spillovers - which are supposed to affect productivity levels of other firms in a host country. Empirical results on this topic …' productivity levels. The impact is assessed as an average effect for the full set of countries as well as for each economy …

transport and telecommunications generates productivity spillovers to nearly all other sectors. …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 …

. -- Multinationals ; backward spillovers ; productivity spillovers …We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are … conclusions regarding the existence of FDI-related spillovers. Using the standard measure employed in the literature we fail to …

. -- Multinationals ; backward spillovers ; productivity spillovers …We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are … conclusions regarding the existence of FDI-related spillovers. Using the standard measure employed in the literature we fail to …