-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 … it is the combination of high gaps and high levels of foreign productivity that has the most positive effects. This leads …

are characterized by higher productivity levels than exporters on average, the productivity ranking predicted by Helpman … et al. (2004) does not hold within all types of industries and across all modes of foreign direct investment. In line …

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

investment ; productivity … are characterized by higher productivity levels than exporters on average, the productivity ranking predicted by Helpman … et al. (2004) does not hold within all types of industries and across all modes of foreign direct investment. In line …