This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

In this paper we take stock of the evidence concerning the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the … productivity of locally owned firms in the Czech Republic. To this end, we collect 332 estimates previously reported in journal … presence of foreign firms (the "FDI spillover") is zero. There is no evidence of publication bias, i.e., no sign of selective …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

Using firm-level data for Jordan, we estimate the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI … disinvestment). We find that they have a significant transitory nature, with employment and capital growth declining when FDI falls …, particularly in downstream industries supplied by locals. This suggests that if FDI-attracting policies are intended to promote …

Using firm-level data for Jordan, we estimate the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI … disinvestment). We find that they have a significant transitory nature, with employment and capital growth declining when FDI falls …, particularly in down- stream industries supplied by locals. This suggests that if FDI-attracting policies are intended to promote …

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 …

What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the … employee-employer linked panel data from 2003-2011 imply that productivity gap rules out the effect of foreign spillovers … sending and receiving firms have been found to drive these spillovers; while an alternative explanation suggests that labor …