: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these … rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …

Northern firms with patented technology can export goods to Southern markets and incur tariff costs or choose FDI and … technologies. We also show that a more effective technology does not necessarily require a longer patent protection to induce FDI …

I study the effects of technology spillovers ("catch-up") and a firm's investment in skills(training) on the firm …'s productivity when FDI (foreign direct investment) is a carrier of new technology. Using 1992 firm-level survey data in China, I ….Chinese local firms are more likely to train skilled workers than foreign firms, which accelerated technology spillovers they …

-term costs of transferring technology to China. Leveraging microdata on the global patent network, we construct novel measures to …-powered incentive contracts form more partnerships with China and transfer more technology to China. These firms subsequently lose R …