Das ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung untersuchte im Sommer 1999 die Auswirkungen von Aktivitäten multinationaler, im besonderen deutscher Firmen auf die Verbreitung neuer Technologien sowie die Innovationsfähigkeit innerhalb der ungarischen Industrie insgesamt. Die Studie wurde in...

The international transmission of knowledge through import spillovers, as a source of TFP growth, has received much attention in the literature. We investigate two additional direct channels through which R&D disseminates: the import of high-technology goods and the internationalization of...

The presence of multinational corporations (MNC) in the developing economies has to a certain extent, has enhanced efficiency across domestic firms, comparable to the advanced economies. This paper seeks to examine the extent of this convergence between the foreign and domestic firms in the...

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity "spillovers" to the host country, but both theoretical micro-foundations and empirical evidence for this are limited. We develop a heterogeneous-firm model in which ex-ante identical workers learn from their employers in...