spillovers that facilitate the adoption of best practices in firms with access to globally integrated peers. This paper combines …, allowing for local spillovers (or crowding out) within the same industry and across industries. Foreign investment in the firm … in the same region is associated with increasing productivity of local firms, especially in form of cross …

Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity … country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout … the 2000s. Little research has been carried out as to the determinants behind the productivity slowdown in Ireland, and …

conditioning the effects of spillovers from multinationals on their productivity. Overall, we find limited evidence or a negative … depending on the origin of the parent companies, we find that the positive productivity spillovers come from supply chain … argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance …