Nicolini, Marcella; Mariotti, Sergio; Piscitello, Lucia - 2010
This paper deals with forward and backward linkages stemming from foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in services … sectors and their impact on the productivity of local manufacturing firms. We distinguish between pecuniary and technological … spillovers. Using a database on foreign MNEs in service sectors in Italy, over the 1999-2005 period, we find that pecuniary …