affect domestic firms productivity. An interesting result of this chapter is that inter-industry spillovers are found to be …

functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups … based on commonly used measures of revenue productivity. In contrast, we measure sizable efficiency gains using measures … that are not affected by pricing heterogeneity, such as marginal costs and physical productivity. Exploiting exogenous …

' productivity and technology transfer. We ask the following research questions: First, what is the nature of the relationship … between political connection and productivity, and does this relationship explain firms' productivity and innovation efforts … negative effects on their total factor productivity and research and development expenditure from their political connections …

effects are mainly mediated by an imitation effect, contrary to the case of other emerging market economies like China, where …

domestic firms. To prevent such movement domestic firms might feel the pressure to increase their wages. Also, productivity … spillovers from foreign firms may increase productivity of domestic firms and possibly wages given in domestic firms. On the … other hand, inflows of foreign firms can lead to lower scale of production and lower productivity in domestic firms, either …