An often contentious issue is how spillovers affect foreign versus domestic industry leadership in a developing economy, for instance, whether policies favour domestic firms. To address such issues it is important to understand the baseline effect of spillovers on industry leadership, which I...

Arguments about the "positive" influence of growing transnational linkages have typically focused on their role in diffusing environmentally-superior innovations which help to raise countries' environment-efficiency. The present article empirically tests these claims by examining whether...