Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993 …-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on … domestic performances: productivity gaps between foreign and domestic firms, and productivity levels of MNEs. It is shown that …

Greece's investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world … in 2019. This paper explores recent investment dynamics and compares them against estimated benchmarks. Our results … suggest that Greece has been under-investing since the SDC, with private investment notably lagging behind. The estimated …

Previous empirical work on the link between domestic and foreign investment provides mixed results which partly depend … investment (FDI) cannot be gauged using firm-level data. Aggregated data, in turn, miss channels through which domestic and … investment. We theoretically show that the effects of FDI on the domestic capital stock depend on the structure of industries and …

In January–March 2016, fixed capital investment stood at 95.2% in real terms, including in the segment of large and … and quarrying sector went up by 7.1% and positively affected the investment movements of large enterprises in Q1 2016 …. Contraction of investment in manufacturing by 5.8% in Q1 2016 against the corresponding period of the previous year was …

We investigate heterogeneity between foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment induced by corruption and … effects on domestic investment; the effect of outbound FDI on domestic investment is fluid: substitution and complementarity …